Flash GUID

[skank]

Is there a way to know the GUID of your flash device, without installing unraid first?

 

[ashaneil]

Using unRAID is the "best" way, probably not the only way. As far installing it goes, all you need to do is extract the unRAID files onto your usb and boot off it on any machine . It is easiest thing in the world. For another way, refer to this post on Wiki. It does mention a way to do it in Windows but that link is dead. Haven't looked hard to find it again.

 

To use a registered copy of unRAID, whether the Plus or Pro version, the flash drive must have a valid GUID. A GUID is like a product serial number, but does not actually exist on the flash drive. It is constructed by the Linux kernel from the flash drive's manufacturer, product ID, and internal serial number. The foolproof way to check if your device has a usable GUID, is to download the UnRAID software, extract it to your flash drive (USB Flash Drive Preparation), boot unRAID in a test machine, go to the Web Management page (top of the UnRAID Manual), and just select/copy/paste the GUID from the Devices tab. If the last 12 characters of your Flash GUID are all zeros, then it does **not** have a serial number and you can **not** register it. You can also utilize a Microsoft utility UVCView.mspx from within Windows to determine the USB device's GUID (which consists of idVendor+idProduct+0000+iSerialNumber), but this is unofficial, and should not be used for registration.

[burnsn200202]

UCView link! 02MAY2015

ftp://ftp.efo.ru/pub/ftdichip/Utilities/UVCView.x86.exe

[Chugiak]

Anyone downloading a Windows executable off an unknown server should take appropriate protections to prevent a malware infection.  An unknown application from a Russion server doesn't inspire a high dgreee of trust.

[Frank1940]

Is there a way to know the GUID of your flash device, without installing unraid first?

 

You are laboring under a bit of confusion.  unRAID runs completely off of a Flash Drive.  And That Flash Drive is the one that you are going to get the GUID from!  It does not need or use any hard disk to install any portion of the OS.  You install unRAID on the Flash Drive that you are going to register with LimeTech according to the instructions for preparing the Flash Drive. (You would have to do it anyway once you got your license file!)

 

See Here: http://lime-technology.com/getting-started/      (Stop after the Booting Up section!)

 

You then boot from that Flash drive in any computer.  It can be a Windows machine, an Apple or even a server running some other server software.  It will NOT do anything to any hard drive on that computer UNLESS you tell it to. You then follow these instructions from from a second computer:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/registrationkeys/     

 

Once you get the GUID from the Flash drive, copy it (Since you are in a browser you can cut and paste it!) for entry into the order form.  You can now remove the Flash drive from the computer and push the reset button to start the normal OS. 

 

If your issue is that you have unRAID running on a computer and you want to use a new Flash drive when you get your License, do the same thing.  And even easier way to do it in the this case, first stop the array, then copy the complete contents of the current Flash drive onto the new Flash drive, and run make_bootable on that new flash drive.  Power down the server, swap flash drives and restart.  Then get the GUID by the instruction above.  You can use the server with that Flash Drive until you get your license file.  Copy it into the 'config' folder using Windows explorer and reboot the server from the GUI and you will be up and running with your newly licensed unRAID in about two minutes.

[razz]

To use a registered copy of unRAID, whether the Plus or Pro version, the flash drive must have a valid GUID. A GUID is like a product serial number, but does not actually exist on the flash drive. It is constructed by the Linux kernel from the flash drive's manufacturer, product ID, and internal serial number. The foolproof way to check if your device has a usable GUID, is to download the UnRAID software, extract it to your flash drive (USB Flash Drive Preparation), boot unRAID in a test machine, go to the Web Management page (top of the UnRAID Manual), and just select/copy/paste the GUID from the Devices tab. If the last 12 characters of your Flash GUID are all zeros, then it does **not** have a serial number and you can **not** register it. You can also utilize a Microsoft utility UVCView.mspx from within Windows to determine the USB device's GUID (which consists of idVendor+idProduct+0000+iSerialNumber), but this is unofficial, and should not be used for registration.

 

That's helpful, so the serial number needed is the last 12 digits of the GUID. Thanks.

[xclimbing]

This is my SanDisk flash disk. its instance id got by Hwinfo:

DeviceInstanceId :  USB\VID_0781&PID_5591\0501C4D9E6EF744F8116A7743D6BA89770C72E617ABBB393C2C2C15C33AA3F839E92000000000000000000002544E30B0016041091558107A62B38D4

 

And its GUID from unRAID is : 0781-5591-9155-8107A62B38D4

 

Got it?