kahlil88
Well-known member
The original tray-loading iMacs had the odd feature of storing the serial number in a hidden sector of the hard drive, meaning that if you wipe/replace the hard drive and do a clean install, System Profiler won't show the serial number. You can even swap the hard drive from another tray-loader and the serial is carried over. I'm wondering if anyone knows where it's hidden and how it might be modified (or restored on a clean system). I've at least narrowed it down to the OS partition (confirmed with grep).
