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serial number of harddisk

how can we get serial number of harddisk in vb.net 2005 and computer id or a mac address
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Consider that a computer can have more than one harddisk or mac address.
For MAC address, you can retrieve the list of MACs this way:

           List<string> Nics = new List<string>();

            NetworkInterface[] adapters = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
            foreach (NetworkInterface nic in adapters)
            {
                NetworkInterfaceType type= nic.NetworkInterfaceType;
                if (type!= NetworkInterfaceType.Loopback && type!= NetworkInterfaceType.Tunnel && type!= NetworkInterfaceType.Unknown)
                {
                    this.Nics.Add(nic.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString());
                }
            }
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Thankx.