How to get serial model name and number of harddisk

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i need the model name of harddisk and its serial number
i could not add the assemblies for class HardDrive (see line A in code)
i have added refrence to System.Management

What I have tried:

private string GetModelAndSerialNumberOfHardDisk()
     {
         string HradDiskModelName, HradDiskSerialNumber;
         ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = null;
         searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

         //DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

         foreach (ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
         {
             HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();//<==== Line A Error
             HradDiskModelName = hd.Caption =
             wmi_HD["Caption"].ToString();
             HradDiskSerialNumber = (hd.SerialNo =
             wmi_HD.GetPropertyValue("SerialNumber").ToString());
             return (HradDiskModelName + "#"+ HradDiskSerialNumber);
         }
         return ("-1");
    }

Posted 22-Feb-23 2:00am

Engineer khalid

Updated 23-Feb-23 0:31am

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Andre Oosthuizen · Answer 1 · 2023-02-23T00:31:00

The following should return the information as selected. you may need to run your application with elevated permissions to access the necessary WMI classes.

using System.Management;

public static void GetModelAndSerialNumberOfHardDisk()
{
    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");
    foreach (ManagementObject drive in searcher.Get())
    {
        string modelName = (string)drive["Model"];
        string serialNumber = (string)drive["SerialNumber"];
        Console.WriteLine($"Model Name: {modelName}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Serial Number: {serialNumber}");
    }
}

Now simply call the GetModelAndSerialNumberOfHardDisk() method.

TheRealSteveJudge · Answer 2 · 2023-02-22T02:21:00

Solution 1

HardDrive is a class you must provide on your own.
It is not contained in any standard assembly.
Have a look here: How To Get The Serial Number Of Hard Drive By C#[^]

Posted 22-Feb-23 2:21am

TheRealSteveJudge