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January 09, 2000 12:00 AM

How can I change the Volume ID of a disk?

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A. A. Windows NT provides functionality to change the volume name of a disk by using the command

label <drive>: <label name>

Windows NT does not provide built in functionality to change Volume ID's, however NT Internals has produced a free utility that can be downloaded from http://www.sysinternals.com/misc.htm called VolumeID which can change the volume ID of a FAT or NTFS volume. To view a drives current Volume ID you can just perform a dir <drive>: and the volume serial number is shown on the second line down, e.g.

Volume in drive E is system
Volume Serial Number is BC09-8AE4

To change enter the command

volumeid <drive letter>: xxxx-xxxx


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Comments
  • Leary
    1 year ago
    Jan 03, 2011

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx

    Pay attention to Hexadecimals and
    YOU MUST REBOOT

  • Leary
    1 year ago
    Jan 03, 2011

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx

    Pay attention to Hexadecimals and
    YOU MUST REBOOT

  • Ljanochka Kolchka
    2 years ago
    Oct 11, 2010

    Hi,

    Here is a nice tool to change the drive volume serial number:
    Volume Serial Number Editor:
    http://www.krylack.com/volume-serial-number-editor/

    Just enter a new serial number and restart your PC.

    thanks,

  • redblanchard
    4 years ago
    Oct 27, 2008

    for Bob1492, hit start/run; then type CMD to bring up a usable DOS command prompt

  • redblanchard
    4 years ago
    Oct 27, 2008

    I ran the volumeid program from a cmd prompt but the number did not change after I rebooted.
    Not the C: drive but an "H" drive --
    What could cause this?

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