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Old November 14th 10, 06:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
John John - MVP[_2_]
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Default Problems with cloning, and the different disk-id's forcing newreactivation

On 11/14/2010 1:32 PM, Paul wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
I think that Bill was asking about the disk signature, with is a
different thing than the Volume ID.

John


With a hex editor, I can see it here, at 1B8 on an MBR I've got
archived. So it's easy to spot, as it is right before the
four partition entries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

In my hex editor (editing the archived MBR sector), I see

1B8 A1 84 9D 80


Yep, the 4 byte long NT disk signature is held from offsets
1B8h through 1BBh (byte 440 to 443). It's all well explained he
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm

John
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