That's why there were tools like TATTOO.EXE to copy the tattoo from the one to the other. It was a form of copy protection, but obviously raised issues when either HDD or motherboard were replaced. The restore CDs would only work if there was a copy of the tattoo on both and the copies matched, and it also told the installer which drivers and programs to install. The "tattoo" was a special encoding kept in both hidden sector on HDD and in the CMOS DMI.
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