The follow up to the real hard drive serial number article

Friday, 14 March 2008 17:56 by Alan Mojab

I have just discovered new information that you should know about. Please make sure you have already read the previous article first otherwise nothing would make sense to you in here.

  1. The InterfaceType of some SATA hard drives are returned as SCSI rather than IDE
  2. If the Hard Drive returns a proper serial number you need to watch for the underscore character. Please see below for more details.

I have noticed some hard drives that do return proper serial numbers have some extra information. The extra information is a suffix to the serial number that starts with the underscore character. I have no idea what the extra information is.

Example:

IDE\
DISKWDC_WD800BB-00CAA1______________________17.07W17\
4457572D41434538333438343132_035_0_0_0_0

Code Example:

To extract the serial number property before converting the hex string to string then to do the reversing process your code should look something like the following;

I like to thank Krzysztof Kosmic and Joe for sending me the data to discover my new findings. Obviously I would add more findings as I discover them.

Happy Coding!

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