OT: hard drive serial numbers?

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Mon May 15 15:59:01 2000

It was thus said that the Great Chuck McManis once stated:
>
> Random question :
>
> Does anyone know how to change the "disk serial number" on a FAT32 partition?
> (a search of the web came up empty)

  I don't know of any commands short of DEBUG.EXE to change the disk serial
number, and the information I have is only valid for MS-DOS 5.0 (I have no
information past 5.0).

  If the disk serial number is the same as the volume id number, then that
is located at byte offset 41 of the first sector of the partition and is
four bytes long. It's immediately followed by the volume label (name).

  I think I have the offset correct, but the table I'm viewing has
inaccurate offsets for some of the fields (but the order is correct).

  -spc (But be careful in modifying that sector ... )
Received on Mon May 15 2000 - 15:59:01 BST