Hard Drive Serial Number in VB.NET

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Hi all visitors
Is it possible to get hard drive serial number by using vb.net?
if it is possible how i can get it?

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Posted 8-Aug-11 15:47pm

soeun tony

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Solution 5

I prefer (and use) the following function :

VB

Public Function GetDriveSerialNumber() As String
     Dim DriveSerial As Integer
     'Create a FileSystemObject object
     Dim fso As Object = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
     Dim Drv As Object = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(Application.StartupPath))
     With Drv
         If .IsReady Then
             DriveSerial = .SerialNumber
         Else    '"Drive Not Ready!"
             DriveSerial = -1
         End If
     End With
     Return DriveSerial.ToString("X2")
 End Function

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Posted 2-Jun-15 18:24pm

Ralf Meier

Solution 3

The solution for it is so simple you should give reference to project for this
1) Right click on your project
2) Click on Add Reference
3) In the .NET tab find "System.management"
4) Click OK
5) Now debug your project
6) Post your Feedback Here.
Currently i'm posting the answer from mobile so i'm unable to post source and example here

Posted 29-Mar-12 9:32am

Swapnil311

Solution 4

I try it and run ok
you have to following the steps in Solution 3

Posted 2-Jun-15 13:09pm

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thatraja · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-08T16:41:00

Solution 1

Don't you search?

How to Retrieve the REAL Hard Drive Serial Number[^]
Get Physical HDD Serial Number without WMI[^]
Retrieving Information From Windows Management Instrumentation[^]
You can find more in CP & Google

For Code conversion
Convert C# to VB.NET[^]

Posted 8-Aug-11 16:41pm

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soeun tony 9-Aug-11 2:38am

Thanks for your reply
i have link to your like http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/hard_disk_serialno.aspx
i also copy this code ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
hd.Type = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToString();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}
to my application and i changed it to VB.NET Format like this:
Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive")

For Each wmi_HD As ManagementObject In searcher.[Get]()
Dim hd As New HardDrive()
hd.Model = wmi_HD("Model").ToString()
hd.Type = wmi_HD("InterfaceType").ToString()
hdCollection.Add(hd)
Next
but it has problem coz of Dim hd As New HardDrive(). i already add referent and import System.Management. but it still error
Please help me
Best Regard,

thatraja 9-Aug-11 2:42am

Generally you should ask questions authors if it's related to any article(Because you can get quick & right response from them). Ask your question in bottom of that article

Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-08T20:02:00

What thatraja didn't mention, and probably doesn't know about, is that these methods don't work for all hard drives.

Overall, there are I think 4 different methods for retrieving the hard drive serial number, so long as they are not in a RAID configuration.

Which of the methods works depends on the drive. There is no way to tell ahead of time which will work and which don't. You'd have to write code to try all 4 methods, then evaluate the return data for your actual value.

No, I don't have example code.