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SET a floppy's volume Serial Number?
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21/06/2000 13:51:56
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
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00382527
Message ID:
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>>Is it possible to set, as opposed to get, the volume serial number of a floppy diskette via a Win32API call?
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>IIRC (and odds are, I don't), the OS takes care of that because the serial number is supposed to be unique. Therefore, allowing you to set it yourself would defeat the purpose of having a serial number in the first place.

It's not really a serial number. It's only a hex representation of the date/time the floppy was formatted.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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