Re: hard drive serial numbers

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George Walters wrote:
> 
> I've been using a contributed routine to read hard drive serial numbers. They
> all have actually been numbers up to now. Apparently this dell laptop with
> Vista is reporting a serial number which is a mixture of alpha and numbers.
> 
> Does anyone have any knowledge about this. Is this one computer dorked up 
> or is this generally the case?

Depends what you mean. 14E9-420A is just a 32-bit number expressed in hex,
and I got that from running dir in a dos prompt. If I done my maths right
((6/16)*8), 3 out of 4 serial nos have a letter A-F somewhere. If you've seen
lots of serial nos which are only 0..9, that is a bit spooky.

Pete

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