Drive Serial Number Problem

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Faulkner" <haroldef at sbcglobal.net>

> As I said, I have three drives that can operate a the C drive, and I
> have been changing disk drives to the C drive to discover what is
> causing my problem.But, every time I change the C drive to another
> drive I lose Filepro.
> 
> Can I use more than one drive serial number to use Filepro? If not,
> what should I do. Today FPTech send me a new license to use Filepro,
> and they said in the email the following:
 
> "Our policy is not to do this more than once or twice a year. Somehow
> you need to resolve your hardware issues so that this does not keep
> happening."

Sorry to hear that.  They're using Drive UUID as a weak proxy for "is our
customer using the install on more than one machine", and you're paying
the price that they chose a weak proxy.

It *is* possible to rewrite that quantity on a drive, though I don't recall
which tool does it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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