Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive Provided by the manufacturer through PHP

Question

Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive Provided by the manufacturer through PHP : How can it be done? I want to store it in a file.

OS : windows 2000,XP,ME,Vista.

Answer 1

You can use

    $hdserial =`wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber 2>&1` 

or

    $hdserial =`wmic bios get serialnumber 2>&1` 

Then you can echo it.

Based on Patrick Daryll Glandien's hint, you can execute following on *nix based machines. $hdserial= hdparm -I /dev/hda

hdparm -i /dev/sda returns lesser info. But as hdparm needs root access, it did not run with php for me.

The '2>&1' part is used from the suggestion here.