Hard disk serial number question

[pablosl]

Hello,

User Johnnyd said in a thread before that he could get the serial number of PC's hard disk. Does anybody knows HOW to read that SN?

Thank you in advance,

-Pablo

[tenochtitlanuk]

I used HardwareIDExtractorC.dll a decade ago in the example on my website. It doesn't seem to work on my current Linux/LB4.5 setup, but you could try it. Documented on the web...

[pablosl]

Yep. That's the DLL I was looking for!. Thank you!. It doesn´t work for me either. Using Windows 8.1 SL x64 bits and LB 4.5.1 here.
I wonder what Windows Version it was designed to run on.
If somebody else knows how to do this task, please report it back.

Regards,
-Pablo

[Chris Iverson]

Don't think it's a Windows version problem.

It's a hardware-has-changed-since-then problem.

In the sample code I have, the code explicitly says it's looking for the IDs on IDE drives in the system.

Nothing uses IDE anymore; it's all SATA. It's looking for information that doesn't exist.

I'll try to find other methods, though.

[tenochtitlanuk]

The dll is supposed to return other ID data. See www.soft.tahionic.com/download-hdd_id/hardware%20id%20programming%20source%20code/exported%20functions%20for%20non-Delphi.html

( It's ID not IDE.)

[Chris Iverson]

Aug 26, 2020 3:12:38 GMT -5 tenochtitlanuk said:

( It's ID not IDE.)

Sorry, but that's incorrect.

The exported DLL function that obtains the IDs of the hard drives is literally named "GetIDESerialNumber".

In the sample code for the DLL I have, reading memory information comes back with a DLL call error, the functions it's calling don't exist.

Getting the CPU IDs may work(get the ID for each core in the system), but I don't know if those IDs are actually unique or not. They're unique on the system, but I don't know if each CPU actually has its own ID.

[tenochtitlanuk]

Sorry! I took what the web page said as being correct and working.. eg function GetCPUID (CoreMask: Word): PAnsiChar; stdcall; { Get the ID of the specified physical core }

Memo to self- don't believe everything you find on the 'net.

[Chris Iverson]

Yeah, GetCPUID seems to work. You can use GetCPUCount to get the number of CPU Cores, and then GetCPUID to get the ID of that core.

On my Surface Pro 4, I get the following output:

CPU ID Core 1 ...................... 263907-1050624-2147154943--1075053569
CPU ID Core 2 ...................... 263907-17827840-2147154943--1075053569
CPU ID Core 3 ...................... 263907-34605056-2147154943--1075053569
CPU ID Core 4 ...................... 263907-51382272-2147154943--1075053569

Again, I don't know if these are unique or not. If it's using the CPUID x86/x84 instruction, then it's most likely NOT unique. CPUID is not used to uniquely identify individual processors; it's used to identify the make and model of a processor, to know what features are available.

You can use the partition ID of the C: drive, but that's technically clonable(if you clone the drive, I think the partition IDs are cloned, as well.)

The other problem with that DLL is that I don't know if it's available for sale anymore; I have trouble reaching the website. If you can't purchase a license for it, it will keep popping up notices about the free version.

[Sver]

Or ?

libertybasiccom.proboards.com/thread/384/easy-get-bios-serialnumber