get serial no. not a model no.?

Question

Hi,
I am trying to get my hard disk serial no, only serial no, actually i got many view but those all ware about model no.
Please any one who has some idea about it, please guide me.
thanks
bye
regards Rajat

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Answer 1

Hi,

You can use Win32DiskDrive wmi class to query this information.

Here is a sample.

            ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");
            foreach (ManagementObject mo in mos.Get())
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Caption:" + mo["Caption"].ToString() + ", Serial Number:" + mo["SerialNumber"].ToString());
            }

Answer 2

Hi,
Thanks for early reply, but sorry to say,  here we can get only model number not serial no.
because I have tried it.
for serial no, is null.
Thanks
bye
regards Rajat.

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Answer 3

Hi,

you need to search the Win32_PhysicalMedia for that.

 try
            {
                ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = 
                    new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", 
                    "SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia"); 

                foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                    Console.WriteLine("Win32_PhysicalMedia instance");
                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                    Console.WriteLine("SerialNumber: {0}", queryObj["SerialNumber"]);
                }
            }
            catch (ManagementException e)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " + e.Message);
            }

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Answer 4

Hi,
have a look at this link
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/DriveInfoEx.aspx?display=PrintAll

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Answer 5

Both of them provides same result for me.

And for my wd and Fujitsu disks it provides correct serial number.

Answer 6

Hi,

only as addition, the SerialNumber Property of the Win32DiskDrive WMI Class is not avaible for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0 See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394132(VS.85).aspx

So i guess the op isn`t using Vista or Win 7

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Answer 7

Hi Heslacher Thanks for your good efforts, but sorry to say, it is not working. still I can get model no. but not serial no. The given example does not give serial no. Please give any other way, any refer dll file or else. Thanks bye Regards Rajat.

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Answer 8

Thanks for reply and solve my problem.
Rajat

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Answer 9

Hi again,

so i would suggest take a look at Gnanadurai post. Its seems to be a good solution.

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