Disk Serial Number

S

Soren Hyltoft

Using API: GetVolumeInformation to retrieve harddisk serial number works in
VB6
But in VB.NET it returns 0.
Please tell me how to do it in VB.NET
 
C

Cor Ligthert

Soren,

You mean this?

\\\Set a reference to system.managagemen
Dim disk As New Management.ManagementObject( _
"Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=""C:""")
Dim diskProperty As Management.PropertyData
MessageBox.Show(disk.Properties("VolumeSerialNumber").Value.ToString)
///
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor
 

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