opc0de, according to your comments i will give you a sample using the WMI.
First, the code which you posted (using the GetVolumeInformation function) return the serial number assigned by windows when you format a disk.
The good news are which exist two wmi classes wich exposes a property called SerialNumber which store the Number allocated by the manufacturer to identify the physical media. these classes are Win32_DiskDrive and Win32_PhysicalMedia.
Now the bad news, unfortunately this classes is not associated directly with the letter (C,D,E,F...) of the logical disk, because that you must call to another wmi classes to find the link between the logical driver letter and the Physical drive.
so you must find this link previous to obtain the serial number. the sequence to find this association is like this.
Win32_DiskPartition -> Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition -> Win32_DiskDrive
this is the code to obtain the serial number of a usb using the Win32_DiskDrive class.
program GetWMI_Info;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
SysUtils,
StrUtils,
ActiveX,
ComObj,
Variants;
function VarArrayToStr(const vArray: variant): string;
function _VarToStr(const V: variant): string;
var
Vt: integer;
begin
Vt := VarType(V);
case Vt of
varSmallint,
varInteger : Result := IntToStr(integer(V));
varSingle,
varDouble,
varCurrency : Result := FloatToStr(Double(V));
varDate : Result := VarToStr(V);
varOleStr : Result := WideString(V);
varBoolean : Result := VarToStr(V);
varVariant : Result := VarToStr(Variant(V));
varByte : Result := char(byte(V));
varString : Result := String(V);
varArray : Result := VarArrayToStr(Variant(V));
end;
end;
var
i : integer;
begin
Result := '[';
if (VarType(vArray) and VarArray)=0 then
Result := _VarToStr(vArray)
else
for i := VarArrayLowBound(vArray, 1) to VarArrayHighBound(vArray, 1) do
if i=VarArrayLowBound(vArray, 1) then
Result := Result+_VarToStr(vArray[i])
else
Result := Result+'|'+_VarToStr(vArray[i]);
Result:=Result+']';
end;
function VarStrNull(const V:OleVariant):string; //avoid problems with null strings
begin
Result:='';
if not VarIsNull(V) then
begin
if VarIsArray(V) then
Result:=VarArrayToStr(V)
else
Result:=VarToStr(V);
end;
end;
function GetWMIObject(const objectName: String): IDispatch; //create the Wmi instance
var
chEaten: Integer;
BindCtx: IBindCtx;
Moniker: IMoniker;
begin
OleCheck(CreateBindCtx(0, bindCtx));
OleCheck(MkParseDisplayName(BindCtx, StringToOleStr(objectName), chEaten, Moniker));
OleCheck(Moniker.BindToObject(BindCtx, nil, IDispatch, Result));
end;
function GetUsbDriveSerial(const Drive:AnsiChar):string;
var
objWMIService : OLEVariant;
colDiskDrives : OLEVariant;
colLogicalDisks: OLEVariant;
colPartitions : OLEVariant;
objDiskDrive : OLEVariant;
objPartition : OLEVariant;
objLogicalDisk : OLEVariant;
oEnumDiskDrive : IEnumvariant;
oEnumPartition : IEnumvariant;
oEnumLogical : IEnumvariant;
iValue : LongWord;
DeviceID : string;
begin;
Result:='';
objWMIService := GetWMIObject('winmgmts:\\localhost\root\CIMV2'); //Connect to the WMI
//colDiskDrives := objWMIService.ExecQuery('SELECT DeviceID,SerialNumber FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType="USB"','WQL',0);
colDiskDrives := objWMIService.ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType="USB"','WQL',0);
oEnumDiskDrive:= IUnknown(colDiskDrives._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumDiskDrive.Next(1, objDiskDrive, iValue) = 0 do
begin
DeviceID := StringReplace(VarStrNull(objDiskDrive.DeviceID),'\','\\',[rfReplaceAll]); //Escape the `\` chars in the DeviceID value because the '\' is a reserved character in WMI.
colPartitions := objWMIService.ExecQuery(Format('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="%s"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition',[DeviceID]));//link the Win32_DiskDrive class with the Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition class
oEnumPartition := IUnknown(colPartitions._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumPartition.Next(1, objPartition, iValue) = 0 do
begin
colLogicalDisks := objWMIService.ExecQuery('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="'+VarStrNull(objPartition.DeviceID)+'"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition'); //link the Win32_DiskPartition class with theWin32_LogicalDiskToPartition class.
oEnumLogical := IUnknown(colLogicalDisks._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumLogical.Next(1, objLogicalDisk, iValue) = 0 do
if VarStrNull(objLogicalDisk.DeviceID)=(Drive+':') then //compare the device id
begin
Result:=VarStrNull(objDiskDrive.SerialNumber);
Exit;
end;
end;
end;
end;
begin
try
CoInitialize(nil);
try
Writeln(GetUsbDriveSerial('F'));
Readln;
finally
CoUninitialize;
end;
except
on E:Exception do
begin
Writeln(E.Classname, ':', E.Message);
Readln;
end;
end;
end.
By the way some time ago i wrote an application called WMI Delphi Code Creator which can help you to generate delphi code to access the system info using the WMI.
UPDATE
Some drivers of the USB disks does not expose the manufacturer serial number on the Win32_DiskDrive.SerialNumber property, so on this cases you can extract the serial number from the PnPDeviceID property.
Check this sample code.
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
SysUtils,
StrUtils,
ActiveX,
ComObj,
Variants;
function VarStrNull(const V:OleVariant):string; //avoid issues with null variants
begin
Result:='';
if not VarIsNull(V) then
Result:=VarToStr(V);
end;
function GetUsbDriveSerial(const Drive:AnsiChar):string;
var
FSWbemLocator : OleVariant;
objWMIService : OLEVariant;
colDiskDrives : OLEVariant;
colLogicalDisks: OLEVariant;
colPartitions : OLEVariant;
objDiskDrive : OLEVariant;
objPartition : OLEVariant;
objLogicalDisk : OLEVariant;
oEnumDiskDrive : IEnumvariant;
oEnumPartition : IEnumvariant;
oEnumLogical : IEnumvariant;
iValue : LongWord;
DeviceID : string;
begin;
Result:='';
FSWbemLocator := CreateOleObject('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator');
objWMIService := FSWbemLocator.ConnectServer('.', 'root\CIMV2', '', '');
colDiskDrives := objWMIService.ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType="USB"','WQL',0);
oEnumDiskDrive:= IUnknown(colDiskDrives._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumDiskDrive.Next(1, objDiskDrive, iValue) = 0 do
begin
DeviceID := StringReplace(VarStrNull(objDiskDrive.DeviceID),'\','\\',[rfReplaceAll]); //Escape the `\` chars in the DeviceID value because the '\' is a reserved character in WMI.
colPartitions := objWMIService.ExecQuery(Format('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="%s"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition',[DeviceID]));//link the Win32_DiskDrive class with the Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition class
oEnumPartition := IUnknown(colPartitions._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumPartition.Next(1, objPartition, iValue) = 0 do
begin
colLogicalDisks := objWMIService.ExecQuery('ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="'+VarStrNull(objPartition.DeviceID)+'"} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition'); //link the Win32_DiskPartition class with theWin32_LogicalDiskToPartition class.
oEnumLogical := IUnknown(colLogicalDisks._NewEnum) as IEnumVariant;
while oEnumLogical.Next(1, objLogicalDisk, iValue) = 0 do
begin
if SameText(VarStrNull(objLogicalDisk.DeviceID),Drive+':') then //compare the device id
begin
Result:=VarStrNull(objDiskDrive.PnPDeviceID);
if AnsiStartsText('USBSTOR', Result) then
begin
iValue:=LastDelimiter('\', Result);
Result:=Copy(Result, iValue+1, Length(Result));
end;
objLogicalDisk:=Unassigned;
Exit;
end;
objLogicalDisk:=Unassigned;
end;
objPartition:=Unassigned;
end;
objDiskDrive:=Unassigned;
end;
end;
begin
try
CoInitialize(nil);
try
Writeln(GetUsbDriveSerial('F'));
Readln;
finally
CoUninitialize;
end;
except
on E:Exception do
begin
Writeln(E.Classname, ':', E.Message);
Readln;
end;
end;
end.
