Is there a way to detect disk ID number?

[digitalworld]

is there a way to detect a disk id number that is assigned to a drive in windows disk managment. for example if you have a maxtor123 drive, can you detect it which disk id has been assigned to it.

[seandisanti]

is there a way to detect a disk id number that is assigned to a drive in windows disk managment. for example if you have a maxtor123 drive, can you detect it which disk id has been assigned to it.

id number? maybe in the registry?

[seandisanti]

try this code...

$key = "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE"
$i = 0
While 1
    $i = $i + 1
    $subkey = $key & "\" & RegEnumKey($key,$i)
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    
    $subkey = $subkey & "\" & RegEnumKey($subkey,1)
    $FriendlyName = RegRead($subkey,"FriendlyName")
    $LocationInformation = RegRead($subkey,"LocationInformation")
    MsgBox(4096,"","I think this info is relevant." & @LF & _
            "FriendlyName: " & $FriendlyName & @LF & _
            "LocationInformation: " & $LocationInformation)
WEnd

thanks larry, i don't haven't gotten permission to access the registry here at work, so i couldn't attempt any code...

[SmOke_N]

thanks larry, i don't haven't gotten permission to access the registry here at work, so i couldn't attempt any code...

Ha!! Wonder how long that will last !! (The access permission ... not the job!! )

[seandisanti]

Ha!! Wonder how long that will last !! (The access permission ... not the job!! )

it took me more than a month to get permission to access the forum, and i was asking daily, i haven't even tried to ask about registry modifying permission yet...

[DaleHohm]

I expect this is also available via WMI, but I've not looked at it in enough detail. Here's an MSDN starting page for WMI.

Digging your way into the correct namespage is the tricky part. You'll find some WMI examples here in the forum and perhaps your best be would be to Google for a .vbs example and convert it.

Dale

[erebus]

Somebody on these forums gave the following code some time ago. It looked useful and I kept it - however it is not mine and whoever wrote it should be given the credits. Unfortunatelly there were no comments about that..

Anyway:

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$wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10
$wbemFlagForwardOnly = 0x20
$colItems = ""
$strComputer = "localhost"

$Output=""
$Output = $Output & "Computer: " & $strComputer & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "==========================================" & @CRLF
$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\" & $strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor", "WQL", _
$wbemFlagReturnImmediately + $wbemFlagForwardOnly)

If IsObj($colItems) then
For $objItem In $colItems
$Output = $Output & "AddressWidth: " & $objItem.AddressWidth & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Architecture: " & $objItem.Architecture & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Availability: " & $objItem.Availability & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Caption: " & $objItem.Caption & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & $objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & $objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "CpuStatus: " & $objItem.CpuStatus & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "CreationClassName: " & $objItem.CreationClassName & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "CurrentClockSpeed: " & $objItem.CurrentClockSpeed & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "CurrentVoltage: " & $objItem.CurrentVoltage & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "DataWidth: " & $objItem.DataWidth & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Description: " & $objItem.Description & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "DeviceID: " & $objItem.DeviceID & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ErrorCleared: " & $objItem.ErrorCleared & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ErrorDescription: " & $objItem.ErrorDescription & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ExtClock: " & $objItem.ExtClock & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Family: " & $objItem.Family & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "InstallDate: " & WMIDateStringToDate($objItem.InstallDate) & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "L2CacheSize: " & $objItem.L2CacheSize & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "L2CacheSpeed: " & $objItem.L2CacheSpeed & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "LastErrorCode: " & $objItem.LastErrorCode & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Level: " & $objItem.Level & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "LoadPercentage: " & $objItem.LoadPercentage & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Manufacturer: " & $objItem.Manufacturer & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "MaxClockSpeed: " & $objItem.MaxClockSpeed & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Name: " & $objItem.Name & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "OtherFamilyDescription: " & $objItem.OtherFamilyDescription & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "PNPDeviceID: " & $objItem.PNPDeviceID & @CRLF
$strPowerManagementCapabilities = $objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities(0)
$Output = $Output & "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & $strPowerManagementCapabilities & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "PowerManagementSupported: " & $objItem.PowerManagementSupported & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ProcessorId: " & $objItem.ProcessorId & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "ProcessorType: " & $objItem.ProcessorType & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Revision: " & $objItem.Revision & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Role: " & $objItem.Role & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "SocketDesignation: " & $objItem.SocketDesignation & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Status: " & $objItem.Status & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "StatusInfo: " & $objItem.StatusInfo & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Stepping: " & $objItem.Stepping & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "SystemCreationClassName: " & $objItem.SystemCreationClassName & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "SystemName: " & $objItem.SystemName & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "UniqueId: " & $objItem.UniqueId & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "UpgradeMethod: " & $objItem.UpgradeMethod & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "Version: " & $objItem.Version & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "VoltageCaps: " & $objItem.VoltageCaps & @CRLF
if Msgbox(1,"WMI Output",$Output) = 2 then ExitLoop
$Output=""
Next
Else
Msgbox(0,"WMI Output","No WMI Objects Found for class: " & "Win32_Processor" )
Endif


Func WMIDateStringToDate($dtmDate)

Return (StringMid($dtmDate, 5, 2) & "/" & _
StringMid($dtmDate, 7, 2) & "/" & StringLeft($dtmDate, 4) _
& " " & StringMid($dtmDate, 9, 2) & ":" & StringMid($dtmDate, 11, 2) & ":" & StringMid($dtmDate,13, 2))
EndFunc

I hope it might be useful to you too.

[digitalworld]

thanks guys, I already tried reading it from registry files, problem i faced was that the controller already writes to the reg to be a disk 0. but it doesn't get to disk 0 until a restart. so in the mean time it is a different disk number.

However, i was able to get this done use a command line option "diskpart" .

thanks again..