On 23/01/2016 16:51, Ashton Crusher wrote:
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My
hesitation with that, or with doing an image restore of the Old C SSD
drive to the NEW C ssd drive, is whether there is any reason to think
there is some key info on the C drive that literally ties the whole
system to the asset tag and/or the windows activivation and by
swapping drives I will have confused all of Dell record keeping. So
I'm wondering if anyone thinks the physical swap of drives is going to
move some "key numbers" that will make the New New computer appear to
Dell and MS like its the old new computer and the next time I call if
something breaks they'll say, that computer was replaced, that asset
tag number is no longer valid or I'll get a pop up from MS saying
"Your WINDOWS is not valid. I realize this may be an unanswerable
question. I'm not worried about swapping the D drive but the C drive
has me wondering.



From the Dell community boards I gather that the Dell Asset Tag "is a
secondary tag, set by the user in BIOS, that can be used by
organizations to track a system for inventory purposes."

There is a Service Tag too, which "can ONLY be set using a special
non-public utility from Dell. Typically if your motherboard is
replaced, you can boot to the BIOS and have a single attempt to set your
Service Tag to the Service Tag of the machine/chassis. If not, then the
utility is needed."

Also, they say,
"afaik the Service Tag is set by Dell and cannot be changed. The Asset
Tag is something you can set for yourself.

Source:
http://en.community.dell.com/support.../19536263?db=5