Changing Hard Drive serial #

[laura]

Does anyone know how to change the "Hard Drive" Serial #
thru VB code?

Thanks, Laura

[G.Kumaraguru]

I don't know clearly why you would do this...
But is it for breaking any AntiPiracy check ?

Any way the answer is...
You cannot change the Hard disk serial Number by any means
The number is embedded in it in Electronic circuits.
And no software can change it .. It is read only.

But you can hack the windows system and make it report
another number after it reads the original number from
Harddisk by over writing the region in memmory where
windows stores the HD serial number.

[Gen-X]

Actually... the Hard Drive serial number is NOT read-only but the only way to change it is reformatting your hard drive.

I think what the person means by the HD serial number is that funny little 4-4 number that comes up when you get a directory (ie 4DF2-13EE). This number is stamped at the time of formatting and remains until you reformat.

A lot of software uses this number as part of a registration key and I would assume the person has re-formatted their hard drive and tried to use the software and it hasn't worked.

If that is the case call the company you got the software from and ask for a new key.

[broesel]

i want to develop a serial protection based on the hd serial, to get computer specific serials. but i don´t know how i can read the serial using vb. does someone have a clue?

-broesel

[Paul282]

It's an API call

[Stevie-O]

Changing the HD serial # is simply a matter of doing some low-level calls to directly access a sector on the hard disk. I don't know how to do it, but I'm quite certain that it's possible, because the serial number is set when the disk is formatted (the # is based on the exact time the disk format was completed).

[Paul282]

Yes but be prepared for everything else that relies on that serial number to fail once it's changed!

Good luck getting that info in advance!