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Get the Serial Number of Drives on Windows Systems

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This guide will show you how to get the serial number of a drive with the drive letter on windows systems.

Get The Serial Number from a Disk Drive letter

  1. Open Windows Powershell or Command Prompt (CMD) and type ether of the following commands
  2. For Powershell: Get-Partition -DriveLetter X | Get-Disk | Select-Object Serialnumber | ForEach {$_.SerialNumber}
  3. For CMD: powershell -c "Get-Partition -DriveLetter X | Get-Disk | Select-Object Serialnumber | ForEach {$_.SerialNumber}"
    • Note: replace X with the drive letter you want the serial number for (with or without quotes "")

Find a Disk Drive's Letter

If you do not know the drive letter follow the instructions below then return to the section above to get the serial number

  1. Open Windows Powershell or Command Prompt (CMD) and type ether of the following commands
  2. If using Powershell: Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'
  3. If Using CMD: powershell -c "Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'"
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