Hard Drive Type FingerPrint Flag

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## Hard Drive Type FingerPrint Flag

When this FingerPrint option flag is set, the hard drive on the host machine is queried for its type. This value is physically stored in hardware and cannot be changed in software.

### Typical Internal Values

There are only three possible values internally for this flag:

- "Fixed"

- "Removable"

- "Unknown"

### Operating System and Security

This flag will be able to successfully query the hard drive for its type on all Windows operating systems. The current user must be logged in with administrative privileges or it will return an empty value.

NOTE: When the option cannot execute properly due to insufficient user privileges, the option simply returns an empty value. This is not an error condition and the FingerPrinting mechanism will continue to work on that machine, except the uniqueness of the FingerPrint is somewhat diminished. For this reason, it is always best to combine a few FingerPrint options instead of using just one.