What is this "152D20337A0C" "serial number" about? I keep finding disks with this "special" serial number. I have 4 of them at home alone. Serial numbers should be unique.
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From the research I have done every instance of that serial number I found of people asking about their problems on the internet appears to be using some kind of external drive (be it a enclosed external drive or a converter device) or did not specify in their post.
It appears that a common SATA to USB controller chip in external drives or adapters overwrites the real serial number of the drive and replaces it with the value 152D20337A0C. If you looked on the physical drive itself it likely has a different serial number printed on it and if you took the internal drive and connected to it directly with a SATA connection it would also report differently.
(If you are using a internal drive then my theory is totally wrong and I will gladly delete this answer.)
Scott Chamberlain
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