drifty
I have been trying to use wmic to return the manufactures serial number from an attached usb drive.
This doesn't seem to work on the CMS drives that i have been using. The drives are usb 2 and do not have any applications or special formatting. Is it possible to find and return the serial number from these drives using a batch file?
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#2 18 Jun 2014 12:56
bluesxman
I don't have a USB drive to hand to check, but I'm presuming you have tried and failed with something like this?
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wmic diskdrive get caption,serialnumber----------------------------
#3 18 Jun 2014 14:16
foxidrive
It works here with usb 3 drives.
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#4 18 Jun 2014 17:54
Simon Sheppard
That works, but you may run into this bug with some USB drives
"Invalid XML content" error message when you run a WMIC command in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2664203
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#5 23 Jun 2014 14:03
drifty
I did not think the XML error applied because the error was not returned when I tried the CMS drive. However after plugging in a 3GB Verbatim drive the XML error was returned. I applied the HotFix and re-booted, then run the wmic command. Now the result for the Verbatim drive and the CMS - 1TB drive (plugged into usb 2 slot on a Windows 7 x64 laptop) is:
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Caption SerialNumber
SK hynix SH920 mSA SCSI Disk Device EI41N1776141O1309
AS2105 USB Device S25TSQO43
Verbatim STORE N GO USB DeviceThank you for the replies
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#6 23 Jun 2014 16:14
drifty
Update from CMS
It took awhile but CMS replied to the question I asked about returning the serial number. It looks like that is not possible.
Their reply:
"Unfortunately that will not be possible because the serial number that is added to the CMS drives are only created at the time that a product is assembled and it is for internal use only (verifying product warranty)."
Thanks for the help on this.
-Frank