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Can I Image a drive full of music?

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BCinSC

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Need to rework drives in my system and was wondering if I can safely Ghost my music partition or will DRM crap hose me?
 
Rework means I'm blowing away Windows. I don't know where DRM is stored, but I'm wary of losing it all.
 
You talking about music you bought from iTMS? All those iTunes tracks? De-authorize the computer from iTunes before you do the image. Re-authorize the computer when you load the image back.
 
Why the hell would you ghost 200gb? Are you going to burn it to 50 DVDs??

The only problem I see with copying all your music somewhere and reinsalling windows would be the media key to decode the drm is usually burried somewhere in your windows install. If you go reinstall windows it would change that, and you can't decode the songs.

Did you rip them with WMP? If that's how you did it, why the hell did you do it with the protection to begin with? Now you see why DRM sucks.
 
V00D00, something buried within current Windows install is what I'm concerned about. No, I didn't rip with WMP. Come to think of it, much of it was simply copied from one hard drive to another already, since that's how it's delivered.
 
If they're just normal MP3's then there's no problems at all. When you rip with WMP and enable the protection then you can't play them on other PC's. If you downloaded them or copied them from someone else, I doubt there is any DRM in them.

What makes you believe they are DRM protected?
 
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