http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=340212

Gather all sorts of information about your hard drives. If you are running Windows XP or Server 2003, that information will include the hard drives serial number if it has one.

This was based heavily on WDiskDrives.pl that was the example used in Dave Roth's article on Using WMI to Request Data About Disk Drives.

use strict; use Win32::OLE qw( in ); my @CAPABILITIES = ( 'Unknown', 'Other', 'Sequential Access', 'Random Access', 'Supports +Writing', 'Encryption', 'Compression', 'Supports Removable Media', 'Manual Cleaning', 'Automatic Cleaning' ); my $TotalSize = 0; my $Machine = shift @ARGV || "."; $Machine =~ s/^[\\\/]+//; my $WMIServices = Win32::OLE->GetObject( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel +=impersonate,(security)}//$Machine" ) || die; my (@drives, %serial); my $DriveCollection = $WMIServices->InstancesOf( "Win32_DiskDrive" ); foreach my $Drive ( in( $DriveCollection ) ) { push @drives, $Drive; } my $PhysMedia = $WMIServices->InstancesOf( "Win32_PhysicalMedia" ); foreach my $Drive ( in( $PhysMedia ) ) { my $name = (split(/=/, $Drive->{Path_}->relpath))[1]; $serial{eval $name} = $Drive->{SerialNumber}; } foreach my $Drive (@drives) { print "Name: $Drive->{Name}\n"; print " Manufacturer: $Drive->{Manufacturer}\n"; print " Media Type: $Drive->{MediaType}\n"; print " Description: $Drive->{Description}\n"; print " Drive type: $Drive->{InterfaceType}\n"; print " Model: ", $Drive->{Model} || "Unknown", "\n"; print " Caption: $Drive->{Caption}\n"; print " SerialNumber: $serial{$Drive->{Name}}\n"; print " PNPDeviceID: $Drive->{PNPDeviceID}\n"; print " Signature: $Drive->{Signature}\n"; print " Partitions: $Drive->{Partitions}\n"; print " Size: ", FormatNumber( $Drive->{Size} ), " bytes\n"; print " Capabilities:\n"; my $CapabilityList = $Drive->{Capabilities} || []; foreach my $Cap ( @{$CapabilityList } ) { print " $CAPABILITIES[$Cap]\n"; } print "\n"; $TotalSize += $Drive->{Size}; } print "Total drive space: ", FormatNumber( $TotalSize ), " bytes\n"; sub FormatNumber { my($Number) = @_; while( $Number =~ s/^(-?\d+)(\d{3})/$1,$2/ ){}; return( $Number ); } __DATA__ F:\>wdd2.pl Name: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 Manufacturer: (Standard disk drives) Media Type: Fixed hard disk media Description: Disk drive Drive type: IDE Model: Maxtor 6Y120P0 Caption: Maxtor 6Y120P0 SerialNumber: Y435RELE PNPDeviceID: IDE\DISKMAXTOR_6Y120P0__________________________YAR41BW +0\345935334552454C202020202020202020202020 Signature: 169678702 Partitions: 3 Size: 122,935,034,880 bytes Capabilities: Random Access Supports Writing Total drive space: 122,935,034,880 bytes