Powershell get hard drive serial number

Maxbester and atoMerz: I had both problems. See this answer for both issues: stackoverflow. So if your hard drive label reads "abcd" WMI will report your serial number as "badc". More information here. Show 7 more comments. Doesn't work for NVMe drives.

I am guessing NVMe drives just don't expose their serial at all. What you are looking at is NOT the hard drive serial number. Question edited; sorry for the mis-information — Canadian Luke. Before considering a down vote to this answer, please note that it was posted before the OP clarified the original question. This answer was indeed correct for the original question. In a batch file one approach is: VOL command to produce the serial number as text along with text we don't want.

FIND to trim it down to only the line with the serial number. FOR to grab the 5th token a part between delimiters on the line with the serial number.

Brian Brian 8, 21 21 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. I used this method to easily identify hard disks and drive letter mappings in a cmd batch file. Thank you for sharing!

The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead? I want to get hard disk serial number. How I can I do that? I tried with two code but I am not getting. Here I am getting VolumeSerialNumber. But it is not unique one.

If I format the hard disk, this will change. How Can I get this? Hm, looking at your first set of code, I think you have retrieved maybe? No credit card required. This article describes a way to get hard drive and partitions information using Windows PowerShell.

In Windows operating systems there are various ways to obtain information about disks and partitions, for example, you can use the Disk Management utility with a graphical interface or the command-line utility diskpart.

You can get hard drive and partitions information using the Powershell cmdlets of the Storage module. A list of all cmdlets of the Storage module can be obtained by running the Windows PowerShell console and running the command:. Next, we consider how to improve the received information in terms of visual perception. To do this, you can remove unnecessary information and add only necessary, such as the type of drive and disk layout, as well as change the width of the table columns.

To do this, using the Format-Table cmdlet, display the desired properties in the table, aligning the columns to the width of the content. For example, display the device number, model, drive type, bus type, and size, to do this, run the command:.

When you run Get-Disk , Get-PhysicalDisk cmdlets without parameters, the Total Size column and the size in gigabytes are displayed, but if you run cmdlets with parameters, the property list contains the only Size in bytes. Also, the size value can be rounded to the nearest integer using the data type [int] , the command will look like this:. You can also apply Format-Table to Get-Disk cmdlet, for example, display the number, name, size, and disk layout style, to do this, run the command:.

Here the Size column also displays the size in bytes but using division as in the example above, you can get the size in gigabytes, to do this, run the command:. And as an example for Get-Volume cmdlet, display information about volume C, to do this, run the command:. Action1 RMM is a solution for cloud patch management , software deployment, remote desktop, IT asset inventory , and endpoint management.

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