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Internal: How to Find the Disk Serial Number

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This article explains how to determine the Windows operating system Disk Serial Number which can be used as an alternative "host id" to build licenses for ExelisVIS products such as ENVI and IDL. In certain instances, especially for laptop computers, this can be the preferred information for license generation if the physical mac address is not easily obtained.


    a.) If the machine has multiple local hard drives installed, determine which drive is boot drive for the Windows session. This is usually the C: drive.

    b.) Open a DOS command prompt via:
    Start > Run > cmd

    c.) Issue the command> vol C: 

    This will result in output similar to the following:

      Volume in drive C has no label.
      Volume Serial Number is ABCD-1234       

Using the above example the correct syntax for the license file host id field would be: DISK_SERIAL_NUM=ABCD1234.

Be sure to remember to remove any symbols (colons or dashes ) from the alphanumeric sequence.