What is the command(s) helps to get information of the Hard disk & processor in a remote windows machine ?
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Via command line? Programmatically? What language? – Jonathon Reinhart Dec 08 '12 at 05:12
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yes command line as already tagged. – Aan Dec 08 '12 at 05:15
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Use the following command with '/node': wmic /node:
/output: – MacG Feb 21 '13 at 05:29/namespace:\\root\cimv2 path win32_diskdrive get /all /format:csv Where is an IP or DNS of the remote system. You'll need admin access to obtain details else may need to use something else like psexec.
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If you can rely on running on Windows Vista or later, then you can use WMIC. For details on WMIC, check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394531(v=vs.85).aspx.
To get CPU information try wmic cpu
To get hard disk information try either wmic diskdrive
or wmic logicaldisk
depending on whether you want information of the disk devices or logical drives.
Since the lines will often wrap, making it difficult to read in a console window, try this variant to redirect the output to text files:
wmic cpu > cpu.txt
wmic diskdrive > diskdrive.txt
wmic logicaldisk > logicaldisk.txt
You can then examine the files cpu.txt
, diskdrive.txt
and logicaldisk.txt
at your convenience.

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This is strange: free hex editor on the Internet (HxD) that has possibility to open physical drive sees 256060514288 bytes of size on my SSD, while wmic diskdrive sees less - 256052966400 bytes. That is wmic sees 7547888 bytes less. Can anyone explain that? – pbies Jun 01 '14 at 18:15
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1These commands are working good for local machine but how do you fire them for a remote machine? I believe the OP was interested in a remote machine. – RBT Mar 21 '17 at 12:37
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you can use this command: msinfo32
and then press Ctrl+R to put the computer IP that you want to connect

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