change or modify hdd hardware id

[tedu]

hi to all,

is there any way to to get diferent hdd name and hdd hardware id?

1. i try to edit disk.inf and no luck

2. i use devmon.exe, but hdd is non root device i.e its not virtual one

need to make samsung hdd to look like WD.

any ideas any one, pls help me !

[Tripredacus]

For things like hard disks, I do not believe its name comes from the INF file. I believe that info comes from where WMI comes from aka, the BIOS.

[CoffeeFiend]

When it comes to hard drives, the OS (and WMI and such), the identification comes from whatever the hard drive answers to the ATA IDENTIFY command (0xEC, sent via IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH and IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT). That's what tells you the drive serial number, the firmware version, model number and so on.

You'd have to modify the firmware for your drive and reflash it. And it would still be detectable in many ways (stickers on the drive, build/design of the drive and controller, unique drive geometry, etc)

TL;DR: Buy a WD drive. It will look like a WD drive.