Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive Provided by the manufacturer through PHP

Question

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.

Answer 1

PHP itself has no way of accessing the hardware like that.

You will have to either

• use a command of your operating system and call it with system() or exec()
• write an extension for PHP that will return you the information

If you are on Linux and have the necessary privileges and configuration you can use $r = system("hdparm -I /dev/hda"); (replace hda with your hd) to get the serial number of a given hard drive.