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    Question Identifying hardware associated with older Windows drives

    Not trying to change the registry, and in fact that would defeat the purpose of reuniting the drive with its original hardware. Just need to know where the information might be stored.
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    Question Identifying hardware associated with older Windows drives

    The manufacturer went out of business, there are no newer drivers. The XP driver won't function on newer systems, I've tried.
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    Question Identifying hardware associated with older Windows drives

    This doesn't answer the question posed. I clearly asked about the hardware (i.e. the motherboard of the machine, not the drive) and license info. The link you gave shows drive parameters which are useless for the purpose of determining which motherboard the drive was installed on. I also...
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    Question Identifying hardware associated with older Windows drives

    This doesn't answer the question posed. I clearly asked about the hardware and license information, not the Windows version.
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    Question Identifying hardware associated with older Windows drives

    Hi, I have some older Windows (XP, 7, 10) platter primary (C:\) HDDs from different old computers of mine. Unfortunately, the stickers got removed so I no longer know what motherboard each drive was associated with originally. Is the identifying information for the original hardware...