Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         Out of interest (note: I do _not_ and will never code for windows so I
> don't keep up on its internals), why would mickeysoft change this
> calculation in NT4/Win2K - was there any particular reason that you can
> think of are they just doing a "it aint broken but we'll fix it anyway"?
they perhaps decided that serial numbers shall be coded in big endian formats
(as soon as you mount disk across networks, you may run into this type of
big/little endian mismatch)

A+
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