Copy protection

[Martin Owens]

> Technically yes, but the difference is that VMware actually writes
> _everything_ into that one file vs wine proposing to write just what is
> written to the boot sector into a file..
>
> The reason it is different, is because it is much more difficult (if not
> impossible) to tell what is boot sector and what isnt if you have a file
> that contains an entire drive's worth of data.
>

Anyone techinicaly adept could find the MBR, it's the 1st sector on
the disk, this isn't about boot records but the MBR which is in a
known place. I recon you could use linux tools on your windows hard
drive to retrieve it easy.