Drive Serial Number Problem

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jay
> Ashworth
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:28 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Drive Serial Number Problem
> 
> ----- 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.

[Walter D Vaughan Jr] 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx