Obtaining the harddrive serial number

[AustrianOak]

Is there some way in autoit to get my script to obtain the harddrive serial number of whatever computer it is running on. I know harddrive serial #'s are unique and thats why im wondering...

[weaponx]

Do a search, for example +drive +serial

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...l=drive++serial

[AustrianOak]

So Im guessing I should go with your example....

But what If users are running vista, 95, xp, ME who knows...will this work for all of them?

[weaponx]

As long as they have WMI installed, I think they should work.

[AustrianOak]

Well I cant assume that they would all have it installed. I know for a fact that harddrive serial numbers are completely unique to each computer so i was going to use this as a type of method to protect software that i create.

since more is involved than i originally thought, is this the best way and would i be overdoing it to go this far?

[Shevilie]

Well I cant assume that they would all have it installed. I know for a fact that harddrive serial numbers are completely unique to each computer so i was going to use this as a type of method to protect software that i create.

since more is involved than i originally thought, is this the best way and would i be overdoing it to go this far?

So if i buy a new harddrive - then what ??

[davecollinsnz]

I know of back up software that says it can copy the hdd serial numbers, but I haven't tried it out yet. You could try getting the processor id as well or instead of.

Func GetProcessorId()
$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\localhost\root\CIMV2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor", "WQL",0x10+0x20)
If IsObj($colItems) Then
    For $objItem In $colItems
    Local $PROC_ID = $objItem.ProcessorId
    Next
    Return $PROC_ID
Else
    Return 0
EndIf
EndFunc

MsgBox(0,"",GetProcessorId())

I got this from the forums, but I don't remember who the poster was.

[AustrianOak]

Thank you DarkEngineer.

Edited August 10, 2008 by IWantIt

[weaponx]

Thank you DarkEngineer.

Shevilie: You should be shot. Don't post something that ridiculous next time. I'm pretty sure that no one is going to buy a new harddrive just to get past detection...

I think you took that the wrong way. Microsoft does this with Windows activation. Once you activate Windows, it is bound to your hardware within a certain tolerance. You are allowed to change a few pieces of hardware before you are forced re-activate. This can be triggered by simply replacing a defective hard drive.

[AustrianOak]

Ahh I see.

I apologize Shevilie..my mistake.

[davecollinsnz]

Your welcome IWantIt.