Internal Serial Number Hard Drive

Where is the serial number of my replacement Hard Drive located? Does it even have a serial number or does a Hard Drive just have the manufacturing # and the Part #? Any info appreciated. Thanks, Sweetgame. There are 3 ways to find the serial number of your WD drive: Option 1 – If you are using Windows. Use Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. The software can provide the serial and model number of the WD drive in your system. The software will work for all of the following types of drives: EIDE, and Serial ATA. 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 numb. WD - Mainstream 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Desktops. This WD Mainstream internal Serial ATA hard drive is designed for use with desktops and features data transfer rates up to 6 Gbps for fast performance. The 1TB capacity offers ample space for storing music, movies and more. Recently, I was asked if changing the serial number on a hard drive would create issues with installed software, licenses or computer tracking. I honestly don't know. The hard drive is the boot drive and is running Windows 10 Pro.

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From the Windows NT-based (Windows XP and 7 specifically) command prompt, how can I get the serial number of a hard drive as a variable? The one I'm looking at is the serial number of the physical hard disk drive

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How To Find Internal Serial Number On External Hard Drive

vol C:

this will get the volume serial number given to it by windows.

wmic diskdrive get serialnumber

this gets the manufacturers serial number of the hard drive.

MoabMoab

• What you are looking at is NOT the hard drive serial number.

• It is called the Volume Serial Number. It is generated at the time of creating and formatting the volume / partition.

• You can get it by using a command at command prompt : C:> vol c: if C: is the drive you want to retrieve the Volume Serial Number for.

• All you can do is redirect the output of that command to a file : C:> vol c: > myvol.txt and it will be stored as a text file in your C:

• I am attaching a screenshot with the highlights:

• The file was stored in the root of C:

• This is what the myvol.txt file looks like in Notepad:

In the same vein as Moab's answer, but using PowerShell this time:

Serial Number Idm

This command gets an instance of the Win32_DiskDrive WMI class and outputs the model of each disk drive in the computer and its corresponding serial number from that instance.

This answer assumes PowerShell 3.0 or later. If running an older version, use Get-WmiObject in place of Get-CimInstance.

On Windows 8 and later, you can also use this command:

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bwDracobwDraco

In a batch file one approach is:

1. VOL command to produce the serial number as text along with text we don't want.
2. FIND to trim it down to only the line with the serial number.
3. FOR to grab the 5th token (a part between delimiters) on the line with the serial number.
4. SET to assign to an environment variable

protected by bwDracoFeb 11 '18 at 19:14

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