On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:39:53 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Bob_S" wrote

| I am not going to read this whole thread again to see what has been said
and
| not said

How are you going to be helpful if you don't read
the thread? It was established a couple of days ago
that he wants the hard disk serial number... assuming
that he *really* needs that at all.... and that volume
serial number won't be helpful.

| Can't believe all the paths this thread has taken from Linux to VB scripts
| just to identify a hard drive
|

It did get complicated. There are several cooks
in the kitchen and Peter is in over his head with script.
He also seems to be on the other side of the world,
which means the discussion is going slo-mo because
there's not much time overlap.

You may not find script interesting, but for people
who do it's an interesting, informative discussion.
I might just as well say, "I can't believe someone
thinks they need to install an 8 MB program just
to find information about the hardware."

Speccy does look good. It's very thorough. But
for most situations a 10 KB script can do the job,
while Speccy is mostly just getting the same info,
using the same methods, with a great deal of
overhead.

Also, Peter should have a copy of Samsung Magician
that comes with their SSDs. That also shows
serial numbers. So there are various options, but
Peter is having difficulty figuring out what he needs.



Yes I do. The new SSD (according to the RHS notification panel) is
still showing up the need to run CHKDSK every day, even though
Magician gives no indication of a problem, nor does "HD pro" nor does
"CHKDSK" nor scannow.
Clearly it's Windows10 and now I have a spare Samsung SSD. On cold
startup the system does a scan/repair of "drive H" shown here on the
System (new) SSD......

https://postimg.org/image/mkbl56npx/

This all happens every other day or so.