Printer SD Card clone

[zoran.riko]

HI everyone,
My question is does enyone can tell me how to clone printer/scaner SD card for Aficio MP 2000. Thanks,

[Vulkor]

I can't see why you can't copy one card to another. HOWEVER, there are more than likely legal issues here. They want you to pay for the card I would guess. If you had one destroyed and need to replace it I could understand.

[pLatik]

you can´t copy the SD card. they have security measures, to prevent copy.

[zed255]

Using a raw 'block level' utility like DD it is possible. This utility will do a byte for byte data transfer without regard for format or content and therefore the 'encrypted' parts copy too. Due to legal issues I won't hold anyone's hand on this one. DD is well documented and there is a Windows version available (though when I use it I choose to run a Linux distro), but beware that it is a powerful tool and is known as 'Data Destroyer' if the syntax is wrong. Good luck.

[Vulkor]

I've copied them before. Needed an SD Card for Firmware. SO had to backup the existing Printer Card and formated it, and used it to upload firmware, then I restored the data.

[zed255]

Really? I was never that brave. If I was stuck on a FW update I'd use the remote firmware via WIM. I do know some cards DO contain encrypted / hidden data so I go via the Linux and DD route. If you can get away with it then why not...

[Vulkor]

using Ubuntu 9.10 atm. More to setting it up, but so far an liking this Linux over Windows. Very rarely do I have to "Wait" for an application.

[zed255]

Ubuntu is one of my favourite distros. I also like Fedora and Suse. PC-BSD is nice, but a little different (as are the other BSD variants). Some distros like PC-Linux and Mepis try to be a little more 'Windows-like' by providing more graphical admin tools, but they are somewhat superfluous. For the geek Slackware, Debian and Gentoo are also popular (among a gagillion others).

Might be time for a thread to see if there are many techs and end users using Linux to any degree. I'd be curious to know. I have yet to see any end-user Linux desktops, but a few back-office type Linux installations for various functions.

[kelvin3892]

Try "Winhex"

[mrwho]

I've copied them before. Needed an SD Card for Firmware. SO had to backup the existing Printer Card and formated it, and used it to upload firmware, then I restored the data.

Of course, but you had a backup of the original data. I'm assuming Zoran lost it, so I don't see any way of sorting this out short of buying a new set of cards.