Php – Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive Provided by the manufacturer through PHP

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Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive
Provided by the manufacturer through PHP :
How can it be done?
I want to store it in a file.

OS : windows 2000,XP,ME,Vista…

Yes, I want the serial number of the hard drive of the Server.

Or can it be done through Adobe AIR?
Or can it be done through a C program on Windows?

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is BC16-5D5F

Is this number : BC16-5d5f unique for a hard drive?
How is it different from the manufacturer given serial number?

wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber

Displays only the following text on my Vista Machine:

SerialNumber

On my XP machine, the command is unrecognized.

Best Answer

The following returns the disk serial number. Should work with multiple drives, you'll just get multiple results. Just run it with shell_exec.

wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber

wmic.exe is located in your windows system32 folder. And wmic does exist on WinXP, Ive used it there myself.

My result on Vista:

C:\Windows\System32>wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber
SerialNumber
20202020202054534241354c4*snip*

I do not know if all harddrives provides the serial number to the OS.

It seems the wmic command is only available on the professional versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Related Solutions

Vb.net – Get H/D Serial number (Not Volumn Serial Number) for IDE and SATA

You can use WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) like this:

Dim mos As New ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia")

For Each mo As ManagementObject In mos.Get()
    Dim serial As String = mo("SerialNumber").ToString()
Next

Although, I've read about cases in which no serial number is returned using WMI. Another way to accomplish this would be through Platform Invocation Services (PInvoke).

This article includes a download in which the author implements CreateFile() and DeviceIoControl() to extract drive information through Interop services in VB .NET.

To use either of the above outlined methods you will need ADMIN rights, a utility which seems to circumvent this can be found here. If your feeling adventurous the C++/Win32 source code is available for you to peruse. (Check out the function 'ReadPhysicalDriveInNTWithZeroRights()')

C# – Serial number of Hard Disk or Hard Drive

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;

Don't forgot to add reference to the DriveInfoEx.dll.

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Related Solutions

Vb.net – Get H/D Serial number (Not Volumn Serial Number) for IDE and SATA

C# – Serial number of Hard Disk or Hard Drive

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