Windows has 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 its disk drives computer us.
Sometimes you should quickly find information about your storage media that are connected to your computer, including their serial number, brand, model, and a number of other properties. All this can be done with a single command from the taskbar. Let's see how it can be done.
There is a special command, the WMICWhich uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to provide information about all storage devices installed in Windows. It works on 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 give you back information about the storage devices you have that are not usually visible without tools third parties. 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.
