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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:51:09 +0530, Deepak Nayal
<> wrote in comp.lang.c:

> I have a Windows PC with Borland C installed in it. I am trying to write
> a program that can read the serial number of a hard drive , but am
> not able to find anything regarding it.
>
> Can anybody please send me a code snippet regarding the same ?
>
> Thanks in Advance.

Neither C nor C++ has any support for any access of hardware devices
at all. Your question is about the Windows API, not about C or C++.
Ask in a Windows programming newsgroup.

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Deepak Nayal <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the response.
> But then I will say that Fdisk does not require any OS calls

That is completely false.

> and still
> it shows you the serial number of the harddisk.

Via the OS interface.

>
> So there must be some way of doing it.

Yes. But not with standard C or C++.

-Mike

Thanks for the response.
But then I will say that Fdisk does not require any OS calls and still
it shows you the serial number of the harddisk.

So there must be some way of doing it.

Jack Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:51:09 +0530, Deepak Nayal
> <> wrote in comp.lang.c:
>
>
>>I have a Windows PC with Borland C installed in it. I am trying to write
>>a program that can read the serial number of a hard drive , but am
>>not able to find anything regarding it.
>>
>>Can anybody please send me a code snippet regarding the same ?
>>
>>Thanks in Advance.
>
>
> Neither C nor C++ has any support for any access of hardware devices
> at all. Your question is about the Windows API, not about C or C++.
> Ask in a Windows programming newsgroup.
>