Change volume serial number

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Rares

Hi to all,

I was wandering if there can be changed the volume serial number. This is
the number that appears when there is typed "vol c:" for example in the
command console.
So, can I change it from somewhere?
Thank you
 
T

Tim Meddick

The VolID program by Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals, works without any
problems. I have been using it or a few years now, it works on NTFS and
FAT volumes and can set the volume ID (serial number) of USB drives and
floppy discs as well as fixed discs.


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 
R

Rares

Thank zou all for the unsers!

Tim, can you tell me how does volumeID works at you please? I have entered
the following command in the commandPrompt: "volumeid<C:>ER12-99AS" and the
console returns me the "Access denied!" message. Why do I have access denied?

Thank you!
 
T

Tim Meddick

I have only ever got this 'Access denied' message returned after running
the 'volid' util on a pen drive that it couldn't seem to [re] set. For
'true' read-only media, such as cd-roms, it returns "Unrecognized drive
type" or, in the case of a floppy with the 'write-tab' set to 'locked',
it returns an explanation of how to 'unlock' the discs protection.

It is possible there is some form of write-protection on the volume
label. This is unusual as XP does not set the volume label as
'read-only'.

On seconds thought; make sure that you have sufficient permissions to
perform this action.

You do need to be logged on as a member of the Administrators group to
set the volume label (and the 'volid' command).

If you try as 'Administrator' and it still doesn't work, then I admit,
I'm not sure what's going on.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 
T

Tim Meddick

Rares,
*Please Note - The command you quoted won't work as the
numbers (including letters) have to be valid hexadecimal ones.

That is; 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E or F

....so the command ;


volid c: ER12-99AS


....would not work anyway but ;


volid c: ER12-99AF


....will work (or should) providing you are logged on with Administrator
privileges.


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 
T

Tim Meddick

Sorry AGAIN

'R' (of course) is not a valid hex number.

so my suggestion that ;


volid c: ER12-99AF


....would work is INCORRECT!


try something like ;


volid c: EF12-99AF


...which I have just tried out on my [a:] drive and does indeed work.

I apologise about the fact I needed three posts to explain myself.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 
R

Rares

Thank you Tim, problem solved.

Tim Meddick said:
Rares,
*Please Note - The command you quoted won't work as the
numbers (including letters) have to be valid hexadecimal ones.

That is; 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E or F

....so the command ;


volid c: ER12-99AS


....would not work anyway but ;


volid c: ER12-99AF


....will work (or should) providing you are logged on with Administrator
privileges.


==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 

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