This article shows WMIC usage on Windows Server 2008.

WMIC can provide a huge range of information about local and remote computers.

The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) is a command-line and scripting interface that simplifies the use of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and systems managed through WMI. We hope this little tutorial has been useful to you.For those coming from a CLI based Linux world, WMIC is a great tool to get around Windows servers. Thanks to these two methods we will see the information on our storage unit without having to disassemble half of the computer.

We will now see the name assigned by Windows and the serial number.

Now, you will need to enter the following command: Get-WMIObject win32_physicalmedia | Format-List Tag, SerialNumber and pressing the enter key.A window with a blue background will open, in this case.In the seeker from the bottom bar Windows we must introduce PowerShell, and press enter.We will be able to obtain the serial number and the same information as in the previous case. This console interface allows us to join commands through instructions. This system is a little more advanced and it is designed for other tasks, but it will also show us this information. We will see now the unit modelthe name assigned by Windows and the serial number.Now, you will need to enter the following command: wmic diskdrive get model, name, serialnumber and pressing the enter key.A window with a black background will open.In the seeker from the bottom bar Windows we must introduce CMD or Command Promptand press enter.We just have to follow the following steps: The command prompt itself will give us this information and any other information we need. The first is possibly the most comfortable and simple in all ways.

There are two methods that we will explain to you.Īll these methods to see the serial number They are perfectly suitable for units HDD, SATA SSD and M.2 SSD. For this reason we can ask Windows to give us this information. It becomes especially difficult if we are talking about an M.2 SSD, which will surely have a heatsink on top. This information is printed on the SSD or the HDD, but accessing it can be very difficult.

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