How to get serial number of USB-Stick in C#

Question

How do I get the internal serial number of a USB-Stick or USB-HardDrive in C#?

Answer 1

Try this:

//import the System.Management namespace at the top in your "using" statement. Then in a method, or on a button click:

ManagementObjectSearch theSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType='USB'");
foreach (ManagementObject currentObject in theSearcher.Get())
{
   ManagementObject theSerialNumberObjectQuery = new ManagementObject("Win32_PhysicalMedia.Tag='" + currentObject["DeviceID"] + "'");
   MessageBox.Show(theSerialNumberObjectQuery["SerialNumber"].ToString());
}

Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/Vsexpressvcs/thread/f4447ed3-7e5f-4635-a28a-afff0b620156/

Answer 2

A solution using Win32 is described here

Answer 3

Hola esto no me funciono:

//import the System.Management namespace at the top in your "using" statement. Then in a method, or on a button click:ManagementObjectSearch theSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType='USB'");foreach (ManagementObject currentObject in theSearcher.Get()){   ManagementObject theSerialNumberObjectQuery = new ManagementObject("Win32_PhysicalMedia.Tag='" + currentObject["DeviceID"] + "'");   MessageBox.Show(theSerialNumberObjectQuery["SerialNumber"].ToString());}

esto si funciona:
Public Function GetSerialNumber(ByVal DriveLetter As String) As String
   Dim wmi_ld, wmi_dp, wmi_dd As ManagementObject
   Dim temp, parts(), ans As String

   ans = ""
   ' get the Logical Disk for that drive letter
   wmi_ld = New ManagementObject("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID='" & _
    DriveLetter.TrimEnd("\"c) & "'")
   ' get the associated DiskPartition 
      For Each wmi_dp In wmi_ld.GetRelated("Win32_DiskPartition")
      ' get the associated DiskDrive
      For Each wmi_dd In wmi_dp.GetRelated("Win32_DiskDrive")
         ' There is a bug in WinVista that corrupts some of the fields
         ' of the Win32_DiskDrive class if you instantiate the class via
         ' its primary key (as in the example above) and the device is
         ' a USB disk. Oh well... so we have go thru this extra step
         Dim wmi As New ManagementClass("Win32_DiskDrive")
         ' loop thru all of the instances. This is silly, we shouldn't
         ' have to loop thru them all, when we know which one we want.
         For Each obj As ManagementObject In wmi.GetInstances
            ' do the DeviceID fields match?
            If obj("DeviceID").ToString = wmi_dd("DeviceID").ToString Then
               ' the serial number is embedded in the PnPDeviceID
                temp = obj("PnPDeviceID").ToString
                If Not temp.StartsWith("USBSTOR") Then
                   Throw New ApplicationException(DriveLetter & " doesn't appear to be USB Device")
                End If
                parts = temp.Split("\&".ToCharArray)
                ' The serial number should be the next to the last element
                ans = parts(parts.Length - 2)
            End If
         Next
      Next
   Next

   Return ans
End Function