Serial no of Hard Disk or Hard Drive….using C#

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Hello friends,

At first it may seems it is very easy question and some body may be trying to give me advice to try Google…..it may be…….

But for me it is very hard I have try Google and can’t find any good solution…
What should be is…..
Just want to get Serial no of Hard Disk or Hard Drive….using C#
Please read carefully, serial no of Hard Disk, But not Serial no of Volume of Hard Disk (e.g. C, D, E..etc).

For getting serial no of volume of hard disk I have found solution on net and its work well but problem is with Getting serial no of Hard Disk………
Some body may trying to make this question as possible copy of Below question or may suggest link of that question….But it is not

And not any below question provide good solution for this problem in C#....
1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4559700/how-to-get-hard-disk-serialnumber-in-c-no-wmi
2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3139276/how-to-retrieve-hdd-firmware-serial-number-in-net
3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/677251/hdd-serial-number
One article (in C#) at link, it gives every parameter nicely other than serial no…
How to Retrieve the REAL Hard Drive Serial Number
You can read discussion at below that article to conform………

Posted 15-Apr-11 2:03am

Pritesh Aryan

Updated 15-Apr-11 2:35am

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Dalek Dave 7-Nov-11 3:33am

Actually, that is a fairly good question, and well set out.

Pritesh Aryan 11-Nov-11 2:04am

Thank you so mcuh Dalek Dave for your compliment.

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Solution 1

see this link

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084402/get-hard-disk-serial-number[^]

Posted 15-Apr-11 2:22am

Ashishmau

Solution 3

Or have a look at this article about WMI that gives you a lot of info including the harddisk serial.
How To Get Hardware Information (CPU ID, MainBoard Info, Hard Disk Serial, System Information , ...)[^]

Good luck!

Posted 15-Apr-11 2:31am

E.F. Nijboer

Solution 7

Great work!Thank for your solution!!!

Posted 29-Oct-12 17:44pm

otacon

Solution 8

This is a pretty good solution and even better if you have C# knowledge http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial233_Getting-Disk-Drive-Information-using-WMI-and-Csharp.html[^]

Posted 1-Sep-15 2:10am

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CHill60 1-Sep-15 8:26am

C# example using WMI was posted over 4 years ago. This solution adds nothing.

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Sridhar Patnayak · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-15T02:24:00

Solution 2

This link is for you only

How to Retrieve the REAL Hard Drive Serial Number[^]

Posted 15-Apr-11 2:24am

Sridhar Patnayak

Pritesh Aryan · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-15T02:36:00

Solution 4

Hello friends............
this is the final solution............

Get Physical HDD Serial Number without WMI[^]

write this much code..........

DriveListEx diskInfo = new DriveListEx();
            diskInfo.Load();
            string serialNo = diskInfo[0].SerialNumber;

Dont't forgot to add reference to the "DriveInfoEx.dll".....

Posted 15-Apr-11 2:36am

Pritesh Aryan

Updated 15-Apr-11 2:40am

v3

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avigodse 15-Apr-11 11:38am

But, this actually gives drive volume serial number, which is tend to change if formatted or partitioned.