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Carol Haynes:
This seems to work for my drives: http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/system/hardwareinformation/article.php/c2815

It is a DOS command (open a DOS command prompt window in the folder with the .exe file and type DISKID32.EXE at the prompt).

It reports the drives on my system, except for the drives in a RAID array, but I have a RAID utility which can do that from Promise (the RAID hardware I am using).

Carol Haynes:
I need to send an executable to a total stranger(s) with hard drive of unknown manuacturer and have them run an exectuable that will outpt a *.txt file (or something similar) that contains the HDSN.  I am not a programmer and I don't know how to do this but an explanation of the code can be found here:

http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2004/02/14/392.aspx
-jdd (December 29, 2005, 08:05 PM)
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Yes I saw this too - you need to have Visual Basic to compile it to an EXE file. Try the other one I posted above - that has source code and a precompiled EXE file.

Carol Haynes:
I haven't tried this solution as it requires some coding.

http://www.vb-fun.de/cgi-bin/loadframe.pl?ID=vb/komponenten/komponente0042.shtml

Unfortunately the webpage is in German but the help file is in English and tells you how to use the software. Just click the download link at the bottom of the page and then unzip the file and double click the helpfile. Look at "restributing" for info on how to register it.

Perhaps someone here could write a simple project to access the data for you (it is beyond me).

jdd:
Thanks, Carol.  is there anyone out there that can handle this simple project to access the data?

Thanks,
jdd

Carol Haynes:
Did you try DISKID32 ?? It does actually work. If you want to be able to email it to someone who doesn't know how to open a DOS window you could easily set up a batch file to do it for them. Something like:

DISKID32.EXE
PAUSE

would do the job.

Save the batch file into the same folder as DISKID32.EXE and then send the whole folder as a self extracting zip file which executes the batch command.

Would you like me to try and put this together for you?

Here is the output on my machine:

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