Retrieving manufacturer's hard disk serial number of SATA hard drives on Windows XP.

[ankush]

Hey friends,


We are trying to retrieve the manufacturer's hard disk serial number through vb.net from Windows XP,2000,2003.

We can retrieve the serial number on Windows XP of IDE and SCSI hard drives but we are facing the problem in retrieving the serial number of SATA hard drives.

We are using WMI for retriving the manufacturer's hard disk serial number.

Any clue what changes needs to be done.

Thanks & Regards

Ankush Grover

 

[jmcilhinney]

Don't SATA drives just get reported with the IDE InterfaceType? They are still IDE drives after all. I have used WMI to get hard drive serial numbers and I have SATA drives, so I'm close to being able to help, but my drives are RAIDed so WMI sees the RAID array as a unit rather than the individual drives. Bummer.