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Yes The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill |
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On Mar 2, 2:28*pm, wrote:
Yes * * * * The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always *listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and *the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill Also Bill Try logo.sys under search If you find email to me Lokking for my ME CD Have like a million cd's |
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Interesting , I wonder then how can this zero sector be copied, ghosted or
whatever? Is this zero sector another partition? mc "metronid" wrote in message ... On Mar 2, 2:28 pm, wrote: Yes The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill Also Bill Try logo.sys under search If you find email to me Lokking for my ME CD Have like a million cd's |
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On Mar 2, 3:04*pm, "mc" wrote:
Interesting , I wonder then how can this zero sector be copied, ghosted or whatever? Is this zero sector another partition? mc"metronid" wrote in message ... On Mar 2, 2:28 pm, wrote: Yes The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill Also Bill Try logo.sys under search If you find email to me Lokking for my ME CD Have like a million cd's- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The only zero sector I know is the MBR |
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On Mar 2, 4:48 pm, metronid wrote:
On Mar 2, 3:04 pm, "mc" wrote: Interesting , I wonder then how can this zero sector be copied, ghosted or whatever? Is this zero sector another partition? mc"metronid" wrote in message ... On Mar 2, 2:28 pm, wrote: Yes The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill Also Bill Try logo.sys under search If you find email to me Lokking for my ME CD Have like a million cd's- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The only zero sector I know is the MBR just testing |
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"metronid" wrote in message news:a1246dbb-501a-4cfb-9eb0- just testing B- |
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On Mar 9, 5:16*pm, "Robert E. Watts" wrote:
"metronid" wrote in message news:a1246dbb-501a-4cfb-9eb0- just testing B- test |
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On Mar 9, 5:45*pm, wrote:
On Mar 9, 5:16*pm, "Robert E. Watts" wrote: "metronid" wrote in message news:a1246dbb-501a-4cfb-9eb0- just testing B- test test |
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Metronoid maybe this will work
http://1computerguy.com/install/hard_drive.htm I'll give it a try sometime.. mc this is not a test "metronid" wrote in message ... On Mar 2, 3:04 pm, "mc" wrote: Interesting , I wonder then how can this zero sector be copied, ghosted or whatever? Is this zero sector another partition? mc"metronid" wrote in message ... On Mar 2, 2:28 pm, wrote: Yes The way I have always understood it, Packard Berll shipped their computers with the hard drives having the system credentials written to the zero sector of the hard drive. This way when the hard drive was formatted and restored it would somehow not be affected. I have switched original PB hard drives around from computer to compter (All Packard Bell units). and regardless of format and restore processes, they always listed the original specs of the computer they came from. This info would include the system ID number which began with an "N" or a "Y" for example, and ended with a plus sign. It would also list what cards were installed , ie. the sound card and the modem level, if there was a tv card, and or radio card, the original processor speed and the memory amount at delivery. This info was not editable and did not change with upgrades to the computer. or even if the hard drive were moved to another PB computer. I know of no way to get this info edited or populated on the computer. Belarc is always another option for identifying info on your computer. It will also list the serial numner of which I wrote earlier. Bill Also Bill Try logo.sys under search If you find email to me Lokking for my ME CD Have like a million cd's- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The only zero sector I know is the MBR |
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