Need help with opening small program

[serc]

I have a small program called volume id that I can't seem to open. It looks like 1 of those dos windows but they say it can't be run from dos. In win xp when i try to double click it all it does is flash on the screen and disapear. I've tried to drag it into the command prompt which doesn't seem to work either. here's the link where I downloaded it from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml
It's the last 1 at the bottom of the page. I relize it's probably something simple but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[hoihtah]

these have to be executed from the command line.

meaning... from your xp go to start - run
and type in command

and dos command should pop up.

find the directory where your volume id is located...
and execute it from there.

and you should be good to go.

 

[serc]

I tried that but it gave me the same result as just dragging the file into the command prompt. Once I do that a couple of lines come up saying some stuff then I'm back to the prompt where i started before I dragged or typed in where the file is. Maybe a better question would be how do I get this program to work "how do u use it". I can't find info on how to use it anywhere. Does anyone know how?

 

[hoihtah]

serc...

from the webpage that you've d/led the file from... it gives instructions.

this program changes volume ID # on your drive.

on command prompt...

type in vol
it should say something like

volume in drive X is [name of your volume]
volume serial number is XXXX-XXXX

if you want to change XXXX-XXXX...
let say... your volume in drive C's serial number is 1234-5678
and you want to change it to 2345-1234...
then try this.

let's say your volumeid.exe is located at c:\

then at c:\ type volumeid c: 2345-1234

and that should do the trick.

i hope i'm making this clear enough.

 

[serc]

Great that worked! Thank you very much for your help Hoihtah!