I'm not a cmd line person but you could try these two 3rd party program install on the mother computer. Then just plug in the usb drive and run the program. On my systems their is no reboot needed. Just plug them in the usb and run one of the programs. I don't know powershell either but here's another tool that might help. (It can also be run from command line and output to tab delimited file so you can extract the data you seek) Look at freeware from Nirsoft to see serial numbers of USB connected disks.

• Two-bay NVMe/Six-bay SFF HDD drive cage on page 9 3 Box 3 — Supported options: • Eight-bay SFF HDD drive cage on page 8 • Two-bay NVMe/Six-bay SFF HDD drive cage on page 9 4 iLO Service Port (169.254.1.2) 5 Front USB 3.0 port 6 Serial number and iLO information pull tab Component identification 7.

(Note the disks don't even need be still connected. Note the column header Connected tells you if the device is still connected or not) Click on column header Device Type to sort and then the scroll down to look at the USB Mass Storage (This device type also includes CD/DVD drives so you may still need to further filter the results if you only want disk) btw. What is the host name and user name of a hard drive???

Room acoustic software. I don't know powershell either but here's another tool that might help. (It can also be run from command line and output to tab delimited file so you can extract the data you seek) Look at freeware from Nirsoft to see serial numbers of USB connected disks. (Note the disks don't even need be still connected. Note the column header Connected tells you if the device is still connected or not) Click on column header Device Type to sort and then the scroll down to look at the USB Mass Storage (This device type also includes CD/DVD drives so you may still need to further filter the results if you only want disk) btw.

What is the host name and user name of a hard drive???Thanks ComputerGeek, good info. I might look into USBDeview for it's command line options if I can't get it to work within powershell. I'm basically just gathering what the hostname was for any drives with a windows OS on them, as well as the users listed in C: Users (or Docs and settings for XP drives). There will be some drives that don't have a windows OS on them, so those won't follow my normal process. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum The web is full of sites on how to find the serial number of your computer but not all serial numbers of hardware belonging to it. I also found 'Hardware ID Extractor.exe' which is extremely limited and both Belarc Advisor and Speccy do not provide such info.

I was wondering if there is such. Hardware & Devices Hello, 1st post, glad to be here. I am having a problem that I find odd and something I never noticed with Windows Search in the Win 7 environment. I have users who name files strictly with numbers.