I havent run accross this yet but I only have a couple of WD's in use. I'm wondering if this is on the new "datalife" floppy.....Going to have to do some checking on this....
Muno, The serial # can be embedded in the firmware of the HD. Thus a "reader" program can easily gleen that info. (kinda like how Sisoft Sandra can tell you what serial # and bios version your motherboard has ect ect)