Re: Of striped hard drive...

["Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>]

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At 04:53 PM 2/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Now, technically, where are the most likely places to locate such a 
stripe so 
>that it is likely to survive fdisk and formatting?
>

BTW I know that M$DOS 6.0 and up, I haven't looked at 5.x and down, 
has a random serial number written to the hard disk and all floppies 
whenever they are formatted with the format command. I learned this 
when a hard disk failed and a new one was formatted and an 
application refused to run. I had to get a new authorization code for 
it. A little investigation turned up the disk serial number.

It can be changed with a disk sector editing utility such as Norton 
Utilities. What, you don't have NU!

This fact seems to have been overlooked by those privacy seekers 
screaming about Intel's Pentium III serial number. YOUR DISKS ARE 
ALREADY SERIALIZED!

Edwin
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