A hard disk will be assigned with a new disk serial number whenever you format a hard drive. This serial number is used by software programs installed on the computer to identify the disk driver and prevent multiple activations of the same software on other computers.
However, the serial number is created during the format. That means you have to reformat the hard drive to change its serial number. And formatting will delete everything on the disk. Then, you can use "Hard Disk Serial Number Changer", a program that allows you to change the hard disk serial number without reformatting it.
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This software is more compatible than Hard Disk Serial Number, and it supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows XP/Vista. More importantly, it can change FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT volume serial number without reformatting the hard drive again.
The Volume Serial Number (also known as VSN) is a unique serial number that is assigned to an optical disk (CD or DVD) or a hard drive after formatting. The Volume Serial Number was added by Microsoft and IBM so that the operating system could recognize if an optical disk or a drive is changed on the system. By that time the only way to determine this, was the volume label (Volume Name) that the user defined to each storage disk. But that way, there was a problem if a user gave the same (Volume) name to two (or more) disks. To bypass this problem, Microsoft and IBM decided to assign a new unique number in hexadecimal form (called 'Volume Serial Number' or 'Volume ID' or 'VSN') when a drive (optical disk or hard drive) was formatted.
Taking advantage of VSN, some software vendors use the Volume Serial Number to avoid pirate copying of their products. This means that software from these vendors can not run if the Volume Serial Number is different from the VSN of the product's original optical disk that was shipped or of the hard drive that the software was first installed. Also this technique was previously used by multiplayer game vendors to ban the gamers that tried to cheat. Nowadays, this method is useless because the game or software vendors now use the hardcoded serial number (HDD Manufacture's S/N that is embedded into the firmware) to identify (ban) cheaters or they ban the CD key.
In windows 10 (Oct 2018) I get "The parameter is incorrect" when trying to change the VolumeID of the C: drive using the SysInternals volumeid.exe. Also the Hard Disk Serial Number Changer fails with the error "Unable to write to this disk in drive". Any ideas how I can change the volumeID?Just for info, I have tried this with Windows10 VM running under Fusion on Mac OS, ands also with Win10 installed on a BOOTCAMP partition on Mac also. No joy with either. Windows is installed under EFI setup, so GPT volume. Not sure if this is the cause?
Program on disk C.CMD Run administrator.cd c:\Volumeid.exe C: 1234-5678Restart.C: 1234-5678 -Disk and new numberReading the number.C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe As a file .batRunning on a changed drive.Write in.vol
Oh this is incredibly kind guide I have ever found today. Thank you so much.But unfortunately, this doesn't work for the number of the Sandisk I have.. I think it is the product issue.. because the micro SD which is from Samsung works fine with both ways(volumeID and Hard Disk Serial Number Changer).
It would be better to point out that the volume serial number is a general identifyer for all volumes, not only for a disk and that what you are talking about here, is only the volume serial number of the first volume (partition) of a disk.
Thank you for listing the recent addition to diskpart. I use the tool as part of my job and had never played with that feature. Unfortunately I think that is a different ID than what people here are talking about. If you type 'vol c:' at a command prompt you will see a Serial number that is unrelated to the uniqueid. One of the giveaways is that each partition has an ID, but uniqueid only deals with a disk (that may contain several partitions). I believe the number being discussed here lives in the VBR.
Note that "list disk" actually lists the physical disks, and not the partitions that you may have assigned drive letters. This means that if you have 2 physical disks, with 3 partitions on each, so that you have drives C:, D:, E:, F:, G: and H:, "list disk" will only show "Disk 0" and "Disk 1".5) Type "select disk x" (without the quotes) where x is the number of the disk from your "list disk" display.6) When you type (say) "select disk 1", DiskPart will respond by telling you "Disk 1 is now the selected disk".7) Type "uniqueid disk". DiskPart will respond with the disk's signature, a series of hexadecimal digits8) Type "uniqueid disk ID=[NEW SIGNATURE]" where "[NEW SIGNATURE]" stands for the new identifier you want for the disk9) Quit DiskPart by typing "exit".10) Type "exit" again to quit the Administrator Command Prompt.
PB DownForce was tested and worked on Windows XP and Windows 7 32-bit although it still was quite random to which machines worked and which showed no change or produced an error. 64-bit Windows is not supported in any free hard drive spoofing tools we came across. The spoofed serial will return to normal after a reboot.
In case you want to use it for copy protection and you need it to return always the same serial on one computer (of course as far as first hdd or ssd is not changed) I would recommend code below. For ManagementClass you need to add reference to System.Management. P.S. Without "InterfaceType" and "DeviceID" check that method can return serial of random disk or serial of USB flash drive which connected to pc right now.
When you add a volume to your instance, you specify the device name that Amazon EC2 uses. For more information, see Device names on Windows instances. AWS Windows Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) contain a set of drivers that are used by Amazon EC2 to map instance store and EBS volumes to Windows disks and drive letters. If you launch an instance from a Windows AMI that uses AWS PV or Citrix PV drivers, you can use the relationships described on this page to map your Windows disks to your instance store and EBS volumes. If your Windows AMI uses Red Hat PV drivers, you can update your instance to use the Citrix drivers. For more information, see Upgrade PV drivers on Windows instances.
With instances built on the Nitro System, EBS volumes are exposed as NVMe devices. You can use the Get-Disk command to map Windows disk numbers to EBS volume IDs. For more information, see Identify the EBS device.
I have multiple hard disks which get connected to my server and I'm not sure which one is what in the view of sdXY. If I could see the serial numbers of my hard disks from terminal, I could easily identify them.
As you can see, to lsblk, it thinks that an optical drive and floppy drive are also disks, which in a sense they are, though not really, since they don't become disks until a disk is inserted. And it shows nothing for serial, it also by the way shows nothing for other values, like label. Definitely a bug since this data is available to the system, that's where inxi gets it, direct.
This command gets an instance of the Win32_DiskDrive WMI class and outputs the model of each disk drive in the computer and its corresponding serial number from that instance. This answer assumes PowerShell 3.0 or later. If running an older version, use Get-WmiObject in place of Get-CimInstance.
A simple way to find your current hard disk volume serial number is to open a command prompt (Win key+R and type cmd) and then type dir. The second line shows your volume serial number for the system C partition. Type dir [driveletter:] and it will show a different serial number even if the volume is on the same physical hard drive.
There are at least three commands to check the hard drive serial number in Linux: tsmartctl, lshw, and hdparm. Before using these tools, you need to know the device names of your disks using the df command. The examples of the device names are names such as /dev/hda or /dev/sdb. Simply type df on terminal to check the device names of your disks.
Hard Disk Serial Number Changer is one freeware to let you change hard disk serial number as you like, it can modify the Serial Number that created by Windows when you format a disk partition, it is one useful and free disk tool from XboxHarddrive.com, can work all hard drives under Windows file system, include Windows 98/ME/Server 2003 and Vista, it is small and simple, easy to use very much.
Additionaly, an Hardware Spoofer that spoofs HDD/SSD Serial Numbers (SMART and wmic) as well as SMBIOS data (such as memorychip (RAM) serialnumber, and motherboard s C Programming C++ Programming Software Architecture Unreal Engine Windows Desktop The system drive on a computer is an important component and if it's slow or under performing, the speed of the whole system will suffer.
The drive's (hardware) serial number is generally embedded into the firmware of the drive and is not something that can easily (if at all) be modified. Depending on the format of the drive, the OS may also embed its own serial number during a full format process on the drive.
Chameleon runs in kernel mode (Ring 0) to change the hard-coded serial number on hard drives and also the MAC address on network adapters. Currently it is limited to 32-bit version of Windows but 64-bit support will be released later this year.
To get the serial number of the hard disk, we need to use some C# classes. ManagementObjectSearcher Class is the class which initializes the new instance of ManagementObjectSearcher class. Basically, it is used to retrieve the management system of the system.
The Hard Disk Serial Number Changer application can change the serial number that gets assigned when a hard drive is formatted in Windows. This can be really useful if an existing hard drive has to be formatted but you do not want to lose any activations or software that is linked to the serial of the drive. 2ff7e9595c
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