_Drive_GetHardwareInfos not reliable
HiHo Forum , attached is a function to extract the VendorId, ProductId, ProductRevision & SerialNumber from a drive. It is derived from (an old version of) Yashieds _WinAPI_GetDriveBusType() function (part of the now). It works in most cases... - but it does not seem to be x64 save (crashes on extracting data from my DVD-Drive) - and for some drives (Western Digital) the VendorId return is just the character "(" and the true VendorId seems to be part of the ProductId - for virtual drives
After some more research I came to the conclusion that extracting Hardware infos via the Api is a never ending story... better stick to a WMI call for consistent results *sigh*... but at least I managed to "decode" the Serialnumber , at least for me it's now the same returned by WMI as the computer-info tool SIW display (which seems to use wmi too?).
; Generated by AutoIt Scriptomatic February 06, 2011
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