Serial number of Harddrive

[Evgeny Zoldin]

Hi ALL,

how can I get serial number of harddrive using "pure" .NET, without Win API?

Thanx

[Austin Ehlers]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:29 +0100, "Evgeny Zoldin"
<ez*****@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi ALL,

how can I get serial number of harddrive using "pure" .NET, without Win API?

Thanx

using System.Management;
//be sure to reference the System.Managment.dll

string GetSerialNumber(string drive)
{
ManagementObject disk=new
ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" + drive + ":\"");
return
disk.Properties["VolumeSerialNumber"].Value.ToString());
}

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

Also check out the other properties of some of the other WMI classes
(Win32_PhysicalMedia or Win32_DiskDrive), as you might find ID that isn't
related to the logical volume. Not all devices give an asset tag or Serial
number, but you can try. The volume serial is easily changed.
-mike
MVP

"Austin Ehlers" <th***********************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:29 +0100, "Evgeny Zoldin"
<ez*****@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi ALL,

how can I get serial number of harddrive using "pure" .NET, without Win API?
Thanx

using System.Management;
//be sure to reference the System.Managment.dll

string GetSerialNumber(string drive)
{
ManagementObject disk=new
ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" + drive + ":\"");
return
disk.Properties["VolumeSerialNumber"].Value.ToString());
}

[mp]

You told as volume serial is easily changed. It is probably true and also
very interesting and would like to know how?

Thanks,
Mirko

"Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]" <mg*******@Atrevido.net> wrote in message
news:uZ**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Also check out the other properties of some of the other WMI classes
(Win32_PhysicalMedia or Win32_DiskDrive), as you might find ID that isn't
related to the logical volume. Not all devices give an asset tag or Serial number, but you can try. The volume serial is easily changed.
-mike
MVP

"Austin Ehlers" <th***********************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fu********************************@4ax.com...

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:29 +0100, "Evgeny Zoldin"
<ez*****@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi ALL,

how can I get serial number of harddrive using "pure" .NET, without Win API?
Thanx

using System.Management;
//be sure to reference the System.Managment.dll

string GetSerialNumber(string drive)
{
ManagementObject disk=new
ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" + drive + ":\"");
return
disk.Properties["VolumeSerialNumber"].Value.ToString());
}