Originally I thought MS's TCP/IP would allow for DOS apps to use
32-bit TCP/IP in the same way IPX apps would (such as NetDOOM or
Descent), but some TCP/IP apps provide their own complete TCP/IP
stack, and use the pure packet interface (characterized by Packet
Drivers that leave transport protocols to the apps themselves).

Answered by a a , an ibibo Advisor, at 5:17 PM on January 22, 2009

There are many tool to find out thr serial no of the hard disk. Some are given below-

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In unix flavoured-
#> hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Model =Maxtor 52049H3, FwRev=JAC61HU0, serialno=F3H238ZC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPort Cache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=8
CurCHS=16383/16/63 , CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39102336
IORDY=on/of f, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0: 1 2 3 4 5 6

#>

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 1:57 PM on September 02, 2008

well, create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by Nidhi Singh , an ibibo Master, at 11:03 AM on August 25, 2008

well , I am feeling HAPPY to answer your question , I would like to suggest you to access the source site if it's available , for more information.
let's create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.


For more information , please do visit source site:


Hope it will help you out.

Answered by Uttam , an ibibo Master, at 7:00 PM on July 21, 2008

well, let's create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

Answered by R.P. Singh , an ibibo Master, at 9:41 AM on July 19, 2008

well, let's create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by Rocky , an ibibo Master, at 10:25 PM on July 17, 2008

create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by singhsaurabh , an ibibo Master, at 2:10 PM on July 17, 2008

well, let's create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by Satya ~ , an ibibo Master, at 5:16 PM on July 16, 2008

create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by Ni .. , an ibibo Master, at 8:01 PM on July 15, 2008

create a class to store information about a hard drive

class HardDrive
{
private string model = null;
private string type = null;
private string serialNo = null;
public string Model
{
get {return model;}
set {model = value;}
}
public string Type
{
get {return type;}
set {type = value;}
}
public string SerialNo
{
get {return serialNo;}
set {serialNo = value;}
}
}

Next, add a reference to your project. Scroll down to "System.Management" under ComponentName. This reference is not provided by default, so you need to add it.

Add a "using System.Management;" at the top of your source code.

System.Management allows us to access WMI objects. Put simply, WMI contains a lot information about your hardware. Now there's a problem, the hard drive model is found in Win32_DiskDrive class, and the serial number is found in Win32_PhysicalMedia class, thus we need to query twice and integrate the information into our HardDrive class.

Let's first create an ArrayList to store our HardDrive objects
ArrayList hdCollection = new ArrayList();

Next, we query the Win32_DiskDrive class first:

ManagementObjectSear cher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

foreach( Manag ementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
HardDrive hd = new HardDrive();
hd.Model = wmi_HD["Model"].ToString();
h d.Typ e = wmi_HD["InterfaceType"].ToStri ng();
hdCollection.Add(hd);
}

Now we need to extract the serial number from Win32_PhysicalMedia class:


searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELE CT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia");

int i = 0;
foreach(ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
// get the hard drive from collection
// using index
HardDrive hd = (HardDrive)hdCollection;

// get the hardware serial no.
if (wmi_HD["SerialNumber"] == null)
hd.SerialNo = "None";
else
hd.SerialNo = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToStrin g();

++i;
}
Luckily, the WMI objects from Win32_DiskDrive are in the same order as from Win32_PhysicalMedia, so the simple code above works. Otherwise, we will have to match them using their unique DeviceID. Start a thread in this article if you think Win32_DiskDrive objects are not the same order as Win32_PhysicalMedia objects returned.

We are done! Now we display our hard drives information:

// Display available hard drives
foreach(HardDrive hd in hdCollection)
{
Console.Writ eLine ("Model\t\t: " + hd.Model);
Console.WriteLine( "Type \t\t: " + hd.Type);
Console.WriteLine(" Seria l No.\t: " + hd.SerialNo);
Console.WriteLi ne();
}

Conclusion
If a user has more than one hard drive, I suggest you display the available hard drives to the user. Ask him which hard drive he's not planning to upgrade soon, then use that hard drive serial number to generate a license key. This will prevent your user from nagging for a new license key in short time.

If your user finally decides to upgrade hard drive, you may give this article's demo app to the user and ask him what the serial number is, or you can create a much more user-friendly GUI one

Hope you find this useful.

this is taken from source http://forums.microsoft.com/MS DN/Sh owPost.aspx?PostID=479030&Site ID=1

Answered by Sharad Singh , an ibibo Master, at 2:11 PM on July 11, 2008