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‎05-29-2025 03:43 AM

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Product: hp z2 g4 (z2 g4 rev 2.0 motherboard)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have a factory HP Z2 G4 Tower computer (Z2 G4 REV 2.0 motherboard) with a 1TB hard drive connected to sata0. I added a 2TB NVMe SSD to it (to the SSD0 port) and cloned the old HDD to the new SSD using RescueZilla. After changing the BIOS setting of which drive to boot from, the system started from the new SSD without a problem. However, I am using a program that lost its license after replacing the drive (it asks for a new key because the hardware ID of the system changed. I no longer have support for this program, but it still works), but I believe that it reads the hardware ID from disk0 on which it was installed for the first time, which has changed, because now disk0 is the new SSD and not the old HDD (both drives are connected and visible in the system, the old drive is of course not mounted because it has the same VolumeID, but even changing the Volume ID did not change anything). How can I force (maybe in BIOS) the disk connected to sata0 to be seen as disk0, despite the fact that the system is booting from the new nvme ssd disk?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards.

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