Hard Disk Serial Number

Hard Disk Serial Number

• rsws

  Try this Code or visit this link

  http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp tid=103023

  Imports System.Management

  Dim tmpStr2 As String = ""

  Dim myScop As New Management.ManagementScope("\\" & Environment.MachineName & "\root\cimv2")

  Dim oQuer As New Management.SelectQuery("SELECT * FROM WIN32_DiskDrive")

  Dim oResult As New Management.ManagementObjectSearcher(myScop, oQuer)

  Dim oIte As Management.ManagementObject

  Dim oPropert As Management.PropertyData

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

  For Each oIte In oResult.Get()

  For Each oPropert In oIte.Properties

  If Not oPropert.Value Is Nothing AndAlso oPropert.Name = "Signature" Then

  tmpStr2 = oPropert.Value.ToString

  Exit For

  End If

  Next

  Next

  MsgBox(tmpStr2)

  End Sub

  Greetings

  Simao

  landsimao.hotmail.com

  
  

• oompa_l

  Hard disk and Hard drive is the same thing, just different term.

  To get the Volume label, take a look at the System.IO.DriveInfo class.

  You would get a list of drives on the system.

  for each drive, get the volumelabel of the drive.

   

  To get the serial number of a drive, I dont think this is possible in .NET unless you use WMI or perhaps call a Win32 function/PInvoke.

  try some of these resources, but they mainly refer to WMI

  http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/sucaet/filesyst_en.mspx

  http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/hard_disk_serialno.asp

   

  You can use this to PInvoke:

  http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685899.aspx

  Check this post on how to use it:

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=357158&SiteID=1

   

  however it is best to use the .NET way of doing such things but .NET does not have a way of getting the serial number of the hard disk, unless you use WMI

   

  
  
  

• KevinHall

  Special thnx to all of you for your helps

  tnx Simao for your help that was very useful .

  Go0d LuCk

  
  

• tattoo

  Serial number is unique on each hard drive, its physically programmed on the circuit board/ROM.

  What you are referring to about different drives are logical partitions, which are volume numbers.

  Regardless how many logical partitions you have on a physical drive, the serial number is always the same, its built into the physical hard disk itself. The only change that will happen with the logical partitions is the volume label.

  
  
  

• gparali

  thnx for your help.

  http://files.download-by.net/download/98643-hdd101.zip

  the link above is a program that get the HDD Serial Number without using WMI , it's only using API Functions to get SN of HDD.

  i want to get SN of HDD not Drives Like C: or D: .

  Go0d LuCk.

  
  
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