On Jun 19, 11:37 pm, Matthew Connor <con...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all! I'm sure many of you rolled your eyes at the subject trying to
recall how many times youv'e heard this question. :) But bear with
because I THINK my question is at least slightly different from the
typical post.
I would like to obtain the manufactuer's embeddedserialnumber (NOT
the volumeserialthat changes with each format) ofUSBdrives. I
found some very handy code to obtain a regular SMART-enabled IDE
drive's information in VB6 here:
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/disk/smartide.htm
However, when I run that code, it does not give me any information
about, say, a flash drive that is connected to myUSBport. Do allUSB
drives (both external hard drives with movable parts as well as flash
memory drives) have an embeddedserialnumber that can be accessed? If
so, how can I obtain that information in Visual Basic .NET? In not
VB.NET, how about any other language?
My ultimate goal is to be able to give out someUSBthumb drives or
external hard drives and be able to uniquely track them. ANY thoughts
towards my goal would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Matthew
Dear Mr Connor,
I think we have the same idea about it. I have been in this maze, I
have done it and it works. I am now living in a country without any
copyright law enforced. And I have done this approach and it works and
non of my cutomers complaint about it. I am sure that you are not on a
wrong way about ensuring your copyright. Now, my approach is tested
with both VB6 and VB.Net.
I know three ways of getting what you want. I mean any hardware serial
number, including HDD (Fixed Disk), Flash drive, Portable Hard Disk.
There are two hard ways and the one you are talking about is one of
them.
I used the easy way and its now bug free.
Of course, there are some facts that should be taken care about
choosing sticks.
Some of them are ...
The USB stick should be genuine from famous company.
It should follow the standard given from USB org. (You can find it on
their web)
I would like to help you with some information but I want to know if
there is any hole in my approach especially if there is more then one
Flash attached. Moreover, I want to discuss about multiple license
using the Network Drive approach.
If you (or anyone in this discussion) are interested, please feel free
to personally mail me.
TMWin
tm****@gmail.com