How to get unique harddisk-id?

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From: MR
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:10

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How to get unique harddisk-id?

I've read each harddisk has an id stored in it which has nothing to do
with it's partitions and is not concerned when changing the disk's
partitions, formating, etc.

I can get this Id with a harddisk-tool (e.g. Paragons Harddisk
Manager).

How can I read it from inside my application?
Using GetVolumeInformation() seems *not* to be the right way, because
it just delivers the IDs from the partitions and it's result is
different for each partition on a single harddisk (and it is also
different from the harddisk-id a harddisk-tool (see above) delivers.


Thanks a lot,

Michael

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