Get Hard Drive Serial Number in VC++

[gokings]

Can anyone tell me how to obtain the actual hard drive serial number from a VC++ application? Thanks

[Arsalan Malik]

See DiskId32. A Freeware utility, along with VC++ source code!:cool: ARSALAN MALIK

[wb]

I hope this helps...

CString CDlgReg::GetDriveID()
{
char dbits[100],drive[100];
int i;
i=0;
DWORD d=GetLogicalDriveStrings(100, dbits);
strncpy(drive,dbits+i,4);
for (int nDrives = 0; nDrives < 26; nDrives ++)
{
if(GetDriveType(drive)==DRIVE_FIXED)
break;
i+=4;
strncpy(drive,dbits+i,4);
}
char vol[40];
DWORD mf;
DWORD sf,sno;
GetVolumeInformation(drive,vol,sizeof(vol),&sno,&mf,&sf,NULL,NULL);

m\_dDriveID=sno;
CString s;
s.Format("%08X",sno);	
return s;

}

[Arsalan Malik]

GetVolumeInformation returns logical serial number of a volume, not the serial number of hard drive!;P ARSALAN MALIK

[Aamir Butt]

Win32_DiskDrive is a WMI class which can give u this serial no. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature..and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth! -Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[gokings]

Thank you, but this retrieves a so called "serial number" assigned to a logical drive when the drive is formatted. I am interested in the manufacturer's serial number, the REAL serial number of the drive. Thanks for replying.

[gokings]

I will check into it. Thank you very much.