Get H/D Serial number (Not Volumn Serial Number) for IDE and SATA

Question

How can I read the hard disk serial number for IDE and SATA drives in VB.NET? (I don\'t want the volume serial number).

This info should be gathered both for XP and

Answer 1

Here is the code to get HDD Serial Number

    Dim HDD_Serial As String

    Dim hdd As New ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_DiskDrive")

    For Each hd In hdd.Get

        HDD_Serial = hd("SerialNumber")
        MsgBox(HDD_Serial)
    Next

Hope it Helps.