tomlange Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 Hi heroes, May I know how technically AIDA64 detects the hard disk serial number? When I run "wmic diskdrive get serialnumber", the output I got was different from AIDA64. how is it works? eg - C:\Users\test>wmic diskdrive get serialnumber SerialNumber D0025_388A_91B3_1ED4 In AIDA64 I got - SAMSUNG MZVLB512HBJQ-000L7 (S4ENNF0MA12982) Thanks in advance!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 46 minutes ago, tomlange said: Hi heroes, May I know how technically AIDA64 detects the hard disk serial number? When I run "wmic diskdrive get serialnumber", the output I got was different from AIDA64. how is it works? eg - C:\Users\test>wmic diskdrive get serialnumber SerialNumber D0025_388A_91B3_1ED4 In AIDA64 I got - SAMSUNG MZVLB512HBJQ-000L7 (S4ENNF0MA12982) Thanks in advance!! AIDA64 reads the HDD/SSD serial number from the drive itself, by querying the ATA ID block. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomlange Posted June 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valour549 Posted June 22, 2021 Report Share Posted June 22, 2021 I noticed the same thing, so how come it's different? Which one is correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice007 Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 There may be a formatting difference. We don't know how WMIC gets the value exactly, but after looking a bit into this, there is a recommended way to query the serial, like this: WMIC path win32_physicalmedia get serialnumber maybe it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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