Getting Serial Number of the Hard Drive Provided by the manufacturer through PHP : How can it be done? I want to store it in a file. OS : windows 2000,XP,ME,Vista... Yes, I want the serial numb...

When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it would expand in size (as do hard drives in VMWare as far as I can remember, isn't this tru...

I have a java program that write some temporary files in the temp directory. The temp directory is on a SSD. The write operation is normally very fast. But now with some specific sample data ...

I need to get specifications of hard disk on both Win and *nix machines. I used <hdreg.h> on Linux like this: static struct hd_driveid hd; int device; if ((device = open("/dev/sda", O_RDO...

How do i get the hard disk serial number without using dll and supported by VISTA

I have SATA Hard Disk, and I want to detect by C# windows form. I want to display that it is SATA or IDE drive. I am using following code but it always return IDE but its should be return SATA. So ...

This is a duplicated post since I didn't get any help on askubuntu.com. I have a 1TB external hard drive that I recently formatted to NTFS. It was mounting on my Ubuntu 11.10 fine until just now. ...

Using DISKPART command line utility, I can get something called a "Location path" which appears to give me what I need, you can view this by using the command detail disk after selecting one of you...

How can I programatically determine if a hard drive is currently spinning or not (Windows 7 or later)? I tried GetDevicePowerState() but it always returns TRUE (always 1, not another non-zero valu...

I want to retrieve the list of fixed disks in a system. But C#s GetDrives Fixed Drives are including plug USB Harddisks. Any idea how I may detect that a fixed Drive is not an USB harddisk or vica...

Is there a tool that will show me what applications are writing to the hard drive in real time? I'm thinking something like Task Manager but for I/O. I've got a number of background processes runni...

I have just upgraded to a new Intel Core i7 (4th gen) PC featuring a 512gb SSD, about 5TB of mechanical storage, and 16GB of DDR3 ram. I am now planning to set up the Android SDK and Android studio...

I'm looking for a nice easy way to find what sectors occupy a given file. My language preference is C#. From my A-Level Computing class I was taught that a hard drive has a lookup table on the fir...

One of our company's server has 32 CPUs, and we have 1000+ very large files to be processed. I'm not sure if it is a good idea to read 32 files at the same time so all cores can perform independent...

I want to get the hardwired serial number from the hard disk but NOT using WMI. I tried using WMI code, and it doesn't work on my machine for sure. So is there any alternative in .NET for finding t...

How do you request Windows to spin down a hard disk programmatically? Is there any user-mode function I can call (or kernel-mode function to call or IRP to send) in order to make this happen? I've...

All OSs that exist right now work in files and folders. I was thinking that there are may other ways of storing files. Would it be a better way to store files by tags, for example: A file ca...

I'm working on a OS portable program that would benefit from detecting if a physical storage device is a SSD or a plain old spin-disk. On Linux there is: /sys/block/sdX/queue/rotational which r...

I have a hard drive that I want to overwrite, not with null bytes, but with a message. 48 69 64 64 65 6e 20 = "Hidden " Here's my command thus far: echo "Hidden " > /myfile dd if=/myfile of=/...

I have an issue with some processes stuck in a D state on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. They have been in this state since Nov the 5th (today being December 6th). I understand these are uninterruptib...

I have a special need for block data storage. My data are formatted data blocks in size of 4096. For high efficiency, I want to directly manipulate the block on hard disk sector and do not wa...

So I am studying for an up and coming exam, one of the questions involves calculating various disk drive properties. I have spent a fair while researching sample questions and formula but because I...

This question came to mind when I was trying to solve this problem. I have harddrive with capacity 120 GB, of which 100 GB is occupied by a single huge file. So 20 GB is still free. My question i...

I'm working on a project that uses a couple maps that can have over 100,000 keys. Currently I'm creating the maps at each runtime using an abbreviated form of the data to save time so that the maps...

I am having trouble trying to get theh permissions for some of my external drives set up. I believe the probem is due to how I am dealing with spaces in the text such that the commands can ...