HDD serial number

Function GetDiskSerialNumber(DriveLatter:String) : DWord;
      Var
        a,b : Integer;
        buffer : array[0..255] of char;
        B1 : PChar;
        SerialNumber : Dword;
      Begin
        New(B1);
        B1 := StrPCopy(B1, DriveLatter + ':\');
        GetVolumeInformation(B1, Buffer,
sizeof(buffer),@SerialNumber,a,b,nil,0);
        Result := SerialNumber;
        Dispose(B1);
      End;


This should do it!

VSF
www.victory.hpg.com.br

You can also use some BIOS information as unique keys!
To get the BIOS info use one of the following functions:

//FUNCTION TO GET COMPLETE BIOS INFO AS TEXT
function GetBiosInfoAsText: string;
  var
    p, q: pchar;
  begin
    q := nil;
    p := PChar(Ptr($FE000));
    repeat
      if q <> nil then begin
        if not (p^ in [#10, #13, ' '..'~' , '?' , '?' ]) then begin
          if (p^ = #0) and (p - q >= 8) then begin
            Result := Result + TrimRight(String(q)) + #13#10;
        end;
          q := nil;
        end;
      end else
         if p^ in ['!'..'~' , '?' , '?' ] then
          q := p;
      inc(p);
    until p > PChar(Ptr($FFFFF));
    Result := TrimRight(Result);
  end;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
memo1.Lines.text:=GetBiosInfoAsText;
end;


//SIMPLE CODE TO GET ONLY THE BIOS DATE
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
edit1.text:=String(PChar(Ptr($FFFF5)));
end;



Hope this helps!
VSF
www.victory.hpg.com.br

Hello

  This is the Volume serial for partition "c", no not the hard diks serial number, so every time you format this partition it will change, even there are some utilities could change the Volume number, or you can change it also from code, so this way it will not be good if you want to do that for software protection

look at this link for
Getting the BIOS serial number
http://www.latiumsoftware.com/en/delphi/00050.php3

Best regards
Mohammed Nasman

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