What is Hardware Id?

[DonkeyRyder]

Is the hardware id from my storage, gpu, cpu or motherboard? And what is it exactly? Was just told I can't play a game because my hardware id doesn't match? Please help, thanks!

 

[saint19]

Hi and welcome to Tom's forum.

What game? What are your rig specs? Could you share an screen shot?

 

[why_wolf]

Usually your Hardware ID is the complete picture of what hardware you have installed at the time a specific software is installed. It's done to make sure you aren't trying to clone software (usually Windows) onto extra hard drives and then install those drives in separate computers.

 

[DonkeyRyder]

So switching hard drives will change my hwid? And not let me reinstall Windows? Rust is the game and I can't screenshot right now. My specs are: gtx970, fx6300,8gb ballisticx ram, as us r2.0 motherboard

 

[saint19]

So switching hard drives will change my hwid? And not let me reinstall Windows? Rust is the game and I can't screenshot right now. My specs are: gtx970, fx6300,8gb ballisticx ram, as us r2.0 motherboard

Yep, totally different HW ID...

 

[DonkeyRyder]

Well crap. So I have to contact Windows about getting a new key?

 

[saint19]

Well crap. So I have to contact Windows about getting a new key?

Not Sir. You should have your key already

What process did you do for start to get that message? Clone disk?

 

[DonkeyRyder]

No no, I haven't done anything. It's just that i did some research and that's what it said.

 

[DonkeyRyder]

This has got me thinking to. What if all I did was unplug something within my system, would change my hwid? Like added a second hdd, unplugged disk drive?