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What happen when a user reinstall their OS ? would it generate new machine id ? or it persist even on reinstall OS

Open dodistyo opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

dodistyo avatar Oct 22 '20 04:10 dodistyo

If this is the UUID from BIOS actually, then no, it will persist across OS reinstalls.

Some motherboards might have a UUID of 0000-000... or FFFF-FF-FF..... which means invalid or not set.

oxygen avatar Nov 03 '20 19:11 oxygen

If this is the UUID from BIOS actually, then no, it will persist across OS reinstalls.

Some motherboards might have a UUID of 0000-000... or FFFF-FF-FF..... which means invalid or not set.

thanks for the reply. but still doesn't answer my question haha

dodistyo avatar Nov 05 '20 08:11 dodistyo

As per the documentation it says it may change after OS updates(windows). Any thoughts on that anyone?

jithin03 avatar Mar 23 '21 01:03 jithin03