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    Manually Setting Hard Drive Volume ID in 64-bit Vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Stroke44, Jul 23, 2008.

  1. Stroke44

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    Eh? I didn't even know there was a volume id separate from the volume label. How do you find out the id of a volume? Is that the volume serial number shown in the output of the "dir" command?

    Anyway, that program will probably work fine in Vista too. Give it a try.
     
    swarmer, Jul 24, 2008
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    The current volume ID of a hard drive is actually the "Volume Serial Number" given when you run "ver" at the command prompt. The volume serial number is being used more to tie a particular software license to a given machine.
     
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