[COMP] Volume serial number on disk drives

Every drive in windows (hard disk or floppy) has a volume serial number.
It's a 4 byte number that resides on the boot sector of the disk.  If you do
a "dir" at the command prompt, you will see the volume serial number of the
drive.  What is this number for?  What are the consequences of changing this
number?

MVF

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