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
- Open Windows Powershell or Command Prompt (CMD) and type ether of the following commands
- For Powershell: Get-Partition -DriveLetter X | Get-Disk | Select-Object Serialnumber | ForEach {$_.SerialNumber}
- For CMD: powershell -c "Get-Partition -DriveLetter X | Get-Disk | Select-Object Serialnumber | ForEach {$_.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
- Open Windows Powershell or Command Prompt (CMD) and type ether of the following commands
- If using Powershell: Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'
- If Using CMD: powershell -c "Get-PSDrive -PSProvider 'FileSystem'"
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