// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5202270/in-delphi7-how-can-i-retrieve-hard-disk-unique-serial-number
unit hddinfo;
interface
function GetDiskSerial(const Drive:AnsiChar):string;
implementation
uses
SysUtils,
ActiveX,
ComObj,
Variants;
function GetDiskSerial(const Drive:AnsiChar):string;
var
FSWbemLocator : OLEVariant;
objWMIService : OLEVariant;
colDiskDrives : OLEVariant;
colLogicalDisks: OLEVariant;
colPartitions : OLEVariant;
objDiskDrive : OLEVariant;
objPartition : OLEVariant;
objLogicalDisk : OLEVariant;
oEnumDiskDrive : IEnumvariant;
oEnumPartition : IEnumvariant;
oEnumLogical : IEnumvariant;
iValue : LongWord;
DeviceID : string;
begin;
Result:='';
FSWbemLocator := CreateOleObject('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator');
objWMIService := FSWbemLocator.ConnectServer('localhost', 'root\CIMV2', '', ''); //Connect to the WMI
colDiskDrives := objWMIService.ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive','WQL',0);
oEnumDiskDrive:= IUnknown(colDiskDrives._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumDiskDrive.Next(1, objDiskDrive, iValue) = 0 do
begin
DeviceID := StringReplace(objDiskDrive.DeviceID,'\','\\',[rfReplaceAll]); //Escape the `\` chars in the DeviceID value because the '\' is a reserved character in WMI.
colPartitions := objWMIService.ExecQuery(Format('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="%s"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition',[DeviceID]));//link the Win32_DiskDrive class with the Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition class
oEnumPartition := IUnknown(colPartitions._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumPartition.Next(1, objPartition, iValue) = 0 do
begin
colLogicalDisks := objWMIService.ExecQuery('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="'+objPartition.DeviceID+'"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition'); //link the Win32_DiskPartition class with theWin32_LogicalDiskToPartition class.
oEnumLogical := IUnknown(colLogicalDisks._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumLogical.Next(1, objLogicalDisk, iValue) = 0 do
begin
if objLogicalDisk.DeviceID=(Drive+':') then //compare the device id
begin
Result:=objDiskDrive.SerialNumber;
Exit;
end;
objLogicalDisk:=Unassigned;
end;
objPartition:=Unassigned;
end;
end;
end;
end.