Get Disk Serial Number

In addition to Serial Number, you can get the Model Number and Manufacturers Name of the Hard Drive by typing wmic diskdrive get model, name, serialnumber and pressing the enter key. Once the Command is executed, you will find the Serial Numbers of Hard Drives attached to your computer. HardDriveInfo.DLL is an ActiveX COM DLL to read or get hard disk information. You can use HardDriveInfo.DLL to read the real serial number of hard disk easily. HardDriveInfo.DLL does not depend on the 'support' libraries to get or fetch the details. What thatraja didn't mention, and probably doesn't know about, is that these methods don't work for all hard drives. Overall, there are I think 4 different methods for retrieving the hard drive serial number, so long as they are not in a RAID configuration.

Get Hard Drive Serial Number

This command gets an instance of the Win32DiskDrive WMI class and outputs the model of each disk drive in the computer and its corresponding serial number from that instance. This answer assumes PowerShell 3.0 or later. If running an older version, use Get-WmiObject in place of Get-CimInstance. Once the Command is executed, you will see both the Tag (Name) and Serial Number listed for the Internal Hard Drive on your computer. Note: Tag Number is also visible on the Disk Management screen and it identifies the physical drive number. Find Serial Number on Label Attached to Hard Drive. This option requires you to open the computer case or the back panel of your laptop and take a.

Download - HardDriveInfo.DLL

You can download full functional evaluation version of HardDriveInfo.DLL and Try it for FREE. Then you will get to know how the software works. Click Download button to download the ActiveX COM DLL.

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