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1. #CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP HOW TO#
2. #CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP SOFTWARE#
3. #CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP DOWNLOAD#

#CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP SOFTWARE#

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. Taking advantage of VSN, some software vendors use the Volume Serial Number to avoid pirate copying of their products. The VSN is changed anytime you format the disk, so if you re-install Windows and you format the system disk, Windows will ask again for activation. In simple words, the Volume Serial Number indicates the exact time of format operation. 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. But that way, there was a problem if a user gave the same (Volume) name to two (or more) disks. By that time the only way to determine this, was the volume label (Volume Name) that the user defined to each storage disk. 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.

#CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP DOWNLOAD#

You can Download Latest Version of WinKeyFinder from Download Section Named WinKeyFinder 1.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. this will change your Volume Serial number to a serial number which is stored in your Activation file which was activated hence you don’t need to re-activate windows again after a clean install.

Now You have to open the Executable Named: Change Volume Serial Number, and Typin your “New Volume Serial number” This is the serial number for which you have taken the backup During activation backup, now Hit Change volume Serial number.

I actually wanted to code/and try this, but found this wonderful program, written in C++, I will or might convert this and integrate into Winkeyfinder using VB.Ĭlick on Backup Activation, This will ask you where to save your Activation!Īlong with this Your Volume Serial number for Windows XP Installed Drive Volume Serial is also Save in a Text file named Volume_serial_number. Now Here I will explain you How exactly You can change your Volume Serial of Your Drive It is worthwhile noting that the serial number returned by the “dir ” command or the GetVolumeInformation() API is not the hardware serial number that comes from the manufacturer, instead this serial number is assigned and stored in the hard drive (mostly in the boot sector) by the file system and *can* be changed by software.

Usually, the serial number of a drive is generated every time you format your hard drive and there is no documented way to change it afterwards. The Program Coded by, Does exactly what is required for activation backup as well as activation restore!

#CHANGE VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER WINDOWS XP HOW TO#

This article will demonstrate how to change the drives serial number on three different file systems: FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.