How can I find the Harddisk Device Serial Number without using the WMI in .NET?

Question

I want to get the hardwired serial number from the hard disk but NOT using WMI. I tried using WMI code, and it doesn\'t work on my machine for sure. So is there any alternat

Answer 1

I am using hdd firmware track in my projects. I programmed behind the mdi form to look for hdd firmware number, then its looping on all the provided numbers of hdds of companies computers and if it matches anyone amongst these provided hdds firmware numbers, then run the applicatoin and load mdi form other wise provides a message "The application is not registed on this machine, please call Mr. Afridi to register this application on 00923339176357. My email address is munawar_s_afridi@yahoo.com. I will send complete source code of fetching how to programm professionaly hdd firmware number and how to stop others by using your app illegaly.

One lovely thing that you should specify all the company computers hdd firmware at once and let the application first pick the hdd firmware number, store it in a variable and then pick the value of this variable(a string value) and loop it one by one with each hdd number by using OR logical operator. If it finds a matching number amongst the companies hdds numbers with variable value, then app should load main form(mdi) other wise notify the user for registration.

The sample code will be provided using vb6. You can easily programm later on in vb.net just by understanding how to call unmanaged code in to a managed .net application. In this case a .dll.