In Windows there is the special wmic command that can provide you with a large amount of information about your system. Today we will deal with it to get details about the disk drives of our computer.
Sometimes you have to find fast information about your storage media connected to your computer, including their serial number, make, model and a number of other properties. You can have all this with a single command from the taskbar. Let's see how it can be done.
There is a special command, the WMIC, which uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to provide information about all of the storage devices installed in Windows. It works in all modern versions of Windows, including Windows 10. You can use it as follows:
Open a taskbar window and type or copy-paste the following command:
wmic diskdrive get Name, Manufacturer, Model, InterfaceType, MediaType, SerialNumber
It will return you information about the storage devices you have that is not usually visible without third-party tools. In our case, the Results of our search were:
The full list of properties you can use for the query above is as follows:
- Availability
- BytesPerSector
- Capabilities
- CapabilityDescriptions
- Caption
- CompressionMethod
- ConfigManagerErrorCode
- ConfigManagerUserConfig
- CreationClassName
- DefaultBlockSize
- Description
- DeviceID
- ErrorCleared
- ErrorDescription
- ErrorMethodology
- FirmwareRevision
- Index
- InstallDate
- InterfaceType
- LastErrorCode
- Manufacturer
- MaxBlockSize
- MaxMediaSize
- MediaLoaded
- MediaType
- MinBlockSize
- Model
- Name
- NeedsCleaning
- NumberOfMediaSupported
- Partitions
- PNPDeviceID
- PowerManagementCapabilities
- PowerManagementSupported
- SCSIBus
- SCSILogicalUnit
- SCSIPort
- SCSITargetId
- SectorsPerTrack
- SerialNumber
- Signature
- Size
- Status
- StatusInfo
- SystemCreationClassName
- SystemName
- TotalCylinders
- TotalHeads
- TotalSectors
- TotalTracks
- TracksPerCylinder
You can find their descriptions on the following MSDN page: Win32_DiskDrive.
