Question Physical HDD serial number from HDDs connected with USB SATA Adapters

[kdearinger]

I need to retreive the physical HDD serial number from HDDs connected
with a USB SATA Adapter. Win32 Class queries; DiskDrive, PhysicalMedia,
return other than the actual physical serial number. I know it can be done
because I have a 3rd party app that retreives all of the drive information;
Serial Number, Model, Manufacturer, etc.

I think the API queries are bouncing off the USB adapters.

Any suggestions?

 

[Menthos]

Querying WMI should give you that information and a very quick Google bought this up How to Retrieve the REAL Hard Drive Serial Number... it's in C, but shouldn't be too hard to convert.

 

[kdearinger]

WMI queries (Win32 Classes) would seem to the obvious method to get this information, they however DO NOT provide the HDD serial numbers with HDDs connected using USB SATA adapters, as I stated im my initial post. The IDs returned are USB indentifiers assigned by Windows to the USB hubs. I was hoping someone with experience extracting this information through these adapters would see this post.


Thanks...

 

[Herman]

We ran into this issue with our licensing scheme about a year and a half ago, and in the end we had to exclude the hard drive's serial number from our hash because there seemed to be no standard with the then newer ESATA drives. Some manufacturer drives would even have a completely different serial number between power cycles.

 

[kdearinger]

I have a 3rd Party HDD tool I downloaded that is able to accuratley provide quite a bit of HDD information including Serial Number, Model, Manufacturer, etc. I just wondering where they're getting it from. I appreciate your posts...

Kev

 

[Herman]

AddressOf.com : Revenge Of DriveInfo (Drive Serial Numbers) is an example of how it's done without the WMI kludge. I wish I had found this article a year ago....

 

[kdearinger]

Thanks. Will post what I find out.