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wmic diskdrive get serialnumber -> invalid xml output

I want to read the name and the serial number of my hard drives.

I stumbled upon wmic but I'm having troubles. I guess these two commands should do the trick, but I only get the message:

Invalid Xml-Content. //(Translated)

wmic path win32_physicalmedia get serialnumber

or

wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber

I tried the following as well:

wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber /FORMAT:list
wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber /FORMAT:xml.xsl
wmic DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber > c:\test.txt

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Solution:

Thanks JPBlanc, via the /? command I've found out that SerialNumber doesn't even exist. I now use

WMIC /output:"c:\hdds.txt" DISKDRIVE GET PNPDeviceID,Name /Format:CSV

which gives the correct result.

Solution

  • You are just making a mistake usin WMIC command line, WMIC DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber /Format /? gives you keywords: 

    CSV
HFORM
HTABLE
LIST
MOF
RAWXML
TABLE
VALUE
XML
htable-sortby
htable-sortby.xsl
texttablewsys
texttablewsys.xsl
wmiclimofformat
wmiclimofformat.xsl
wmiclitableformat
wmiclitableformat.xsl
wmiclitableformatnosys
wmiclitableformatnosys.xsl
wmiclivalueformat
wmiclivalueformat.xsl

    you can try :

    WMIC /output:"c:\temp\serial1.xml" DISKDRIVE GET SerialNumber /Format:RAWXML

    You can replace RAWXML by one of the others formats.