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I am trying to get the serial number of the boot drive and I haven't figured out how to do it. I do understand that the partition =\= hard drive but I'd like the serial of the boot partition. This what I have so far: var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia"); int i = 0; foreach (ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get()) { // get the hardware serial no. if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null) richTextBox1.Text += "None" + Environment.NewLine; else richTextBox1.Text += "Name: " + wmi_HD["Name"] + Environment.NewLine; richTextBox1.Text += "SerialNumber: " + wmi

I have lots of hard disk drives in my computer (7). When they are not used the power option send them to sleep after a while. But because everything makes a lot of noise I would like to send them to sleep when I want, not just after the default system timeout. On Windows (XP and up), preferably in C#, How can I send a disk to sleep by code? Thanks a lot in advance for your help... I do not know of the API to do this directly but there are tools that can do it. One that I have seen is Hard Disk Sleeper . I have not used it on my own machines so I cannot speak to its quality or effectiveness. It

In the ears of working in multiple teams, I've met multiple infrastructure managers that instituted a policy of weekly server reboots. As a developer, I was always against the policy - it seems that this is a hack to work around software bugs and hardware instabilities, instead of correcting them. What are the people's opinions, positive and negative points regarding the policy? If you reboot your servers occasionally, you can be sure they will come back up. Though weekly sounds like a serious overkill, I have seen this problem on Linux machines with long uptimes. Someone didn't bother to set

I want to use Delphi to create a program that controls the fan speed of my computer and monitors the temperature. What API calls are involved in doing that? Are there any good code samples that you can share? You can use the WMI classes Win32_TemperatureProbe and Win32_Fan , from delphi you must import the Microsoft WMIScripting V1.x Library using Component->Import Component->Import type library->Next->"Select the library"->Next->Add unit to project->Finish. See this code. is just a simple example. program GetWMI_Info; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses ActiveX, Variants, SysUtils, WbemScripting_TLB in '