Getting either harddrive or motherboard serial number

[Abubakar]

I have been trying to write a code that will give me the
serial number of a harddrive or that of a motherboard, but
i don't seem to get it right.
Do anybody out there have any idea?

[Ian Frawley]

You need to use WMI check MSDN at this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...oarddevice.asp

using System.Management;

//Connection credentials to the remote computer - not needed if the logged
in account has access
ConnectionOptions oConn = new ConnectionOptions();
oConn.Username = "Administrator";
oConn.Password = "";

System.Management.ManagementScope oMs = new
System.Management.ManagementScope(\\MachineID, oConn);

System.Management.ObjectQuery oQuery = new
System.Management.ObjectQuery("select SerialNumber from Win32_BaseBoard");

ManagementObjectSearcher oSearcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher(oMs,oQuery);

ManagementObjectCollection oReturnCollection = oSearcher.Get();

foreach( ManagementObject oReturn in oReturnCollection )
{
Console.WriteLine("Serial Number : " +
oReturn["SerialNumber"].ToString());
}

Hope this helps

Ian
"Abubakar" <xv************@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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I have been trying to write a code that will give me the
serial number of a harddrive or that of a motherboard, but
i don't seem to get it right.
Do anybody out there have any idea?

[Ian Frawley]

I hope that this worked for you.

"Ian Frawley" wrote in message

You need to use WMI check MSDN at this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...oarddevice.asp
using System.Management;

//Connection credentials to the remote computer - not needed if the logged
in account has access
ConnectionOptions oConn = new ConnectionOptions();
oConn.Username = "Administrator";
oConn.Password = "";

System.Management.ManagementScope oMs = new
System.Management.ManagementScope(\\MachineID, oConn);

System.Management.ObjectQuery oQuery = new
System.Management.ObjectQuery("select SerialNumber from Win32_BaseBoard");

ManagementObjectSearcher oSearcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher(oMs,oQuery);

ManagementObjectCollection oReturnCollection = oSearcher.Get();

foreach( ManagementObject oReturn in oReturnCollection )
{
Console.WriteLine("Serial Number : " +
oReturn["SerialNumber"].ToString());
}

Hope this helps

Ian
"Abubakar" <xv************@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:01****************************@phx.gbl...

I have been trying to write a code that will give me the
serial number of a harddrive or that of a motherboard, but
i don't seem to get it right.
Do anybody out there have any idea?