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

Run the following with shell_exec (test in command prompt if needed):

wmic path win32_physicalmedia get Tag,SerialNumber

DISKDRIVE doesn't get the actual serial number for my drive that shows plugged in through an IDE channel. the above seemed to get the actual serial numbers for all of my drives. Tag will also return you what type of drive it is which may be helpful for identifying different drives.

Example output:

SerialNumber     Tag
WD-WX55D33JQNZ4  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE4
S1OKIJNH938475   \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
WD-CV44HJ5L765Y  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
WD-WX41D65SD1UU  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2
WD-WXB1SD3OIJHG  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE3
                 \\.\CDROM0

Answer 2

Do you want the hard drive from the server or a client? PHP runs on the server so getting it straight from the client doens't seem possible to me.

The manual suggest you can execute commands on you server: http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

Unfortunately I don't enough Unix to get you hdd serials.

Answer 3

hdparm -i /dev/sdX

that's on linux, not sure on windows though. You could execute that via "system()"

Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.hk.msdn.connection&tid=e41f0af2-2e76-4be6-9b7b-636e79ac0491&cat=zh_HK_3b03d742-993a-4f96-accd-1063c6bfd559&lang=zh&cr=HK&sloc=&p=1

Might be a way forward.

Also, when I ran a "dir" on the command prompt, it shows:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is BC16-5D5F

Is that what you're looking for?