Re: finding information about removable media

Note that although you asked the question, this one reply of mine was not a
reply to a message of yours.

It is not clear to me who wrote the DiskId32 utility, but whoever did does
deserve credit for the accomplishment.

Sometimes people make comments that are supplementary, but seem to be a
disagreement. I think it helps to state clearly that something said by
someone else is correct or whatever. Whether intended or not, Lynn's
comments seem to disagree with what Laszlo said. I assume that was not the
intent, but it is the result. Simply stating explicitly that Laszlo is
correct and that there is additional information would make the world a
better place. Understand?


"Chris Ellis" <chriseAtStompsoftDotCom> wrote in message
news:%23ZoWmKuEGHA.2912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It may have been said before... but I was asking how to go about getting
> this information (as I've never done anything hardware specific before)...
> so if Lynn was repetitive in any way, he was also very instrumental in
> answering my question...
>
> that having been said... I appreciate your time and your input...
>
> Chris
>
> "Sam Hobbs" <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23qk2PpmEGHA.1584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "Lynn McGuire" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:O6hv9xjEGHA.2036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Well, if you want a really SIMPLE solution than lock the file to the
>>>> drive's
>>>> SERIAL NUMBER (not the label).
>>>
>>> The disk volume id can be easily changed. I wrote this utility for the
>>> SysInternals guys many years ago:
>>> http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/VolumeId.html
>>
>> Isn't that what Laszlo siad? In other words, "volume id" and "label" are
>> the same thing, right?
>>
>>> The better thing is to lock to the hard drive serial number. See
>>> DiskId32
>>> at http://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html .
>>
>> Isn't that what Laszlo siad? In other words, "hard drive serial number"
>> and "drive's SERIAL NUMBER" are the same thing, right?
>>
>>> The next best lock to item is the MAC address for the NIC card.
>>
>> I agree that that is not the best solution, especially if the software
>> can exist in a system without a NIC card.
>>
>>
>
>


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