USBPhysic is a stand-alone component ( 32/64-bit Windows dynamic-link library – DLL ) that can be used to extract the physical vendor information from almost any USB (Universal Serial Bus) storage device. With USBPhysic you can get the manufacturer serial number, manufacturer name and so on, of the external portable Hard Drives, flash/pen/ key drive or any other kind of USB Storage Device.

Why should I need the physical USB storage info ?

As you know some of the physical information, actually only the serial number, is a unique number/string per device and this offers you a chance to programmatically identify the actual device.

Let’s say you want a way to lock your software to a USB storage device (a small flash pen), or distribute your software only with a USB stick, a fast and reliable way to do that is by generating a serial number based on that USB device serial (the hardware serial number that can not be changed, even after a full format). The physical serial number is not the same as the volume serial number, it will not change after a format, and there is no way to change it unless you change the actual device.

Requirements

- USBPhysic is a stand-alone component, does not require any other files to work.

- It uses the drivers on Win32/64 platforms so there are no special library/driver requirements.

- It can be used in any programming/scripting language that can make WINAPI calls like: Delphi, C++Builder, C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, VBA, PowerBuilder, Visual Foxpro, Clari on and so

on.

- USB device serial numbers are optional and it depends on the hardware manufacturer if they are implemented or not.

- It requires administrator rights on VISTA/Windows 7 to successfully access the USB devices

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Installing and using the plugin

– Use the setup to install the BsTweet Plugin (or copy the BsTweet.dll) in your BsPlayer plugins folder (usually in “C:\Program Files\Webteh\BSplayerPro\plugins”)
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 In order to get the hard disk serial number and other manufacturer information (NOT volume serial, only the unique one, the one that will not change after a format, physical one) using our hddphysic product and delphi code you need to do the following 3 easy steps:

(1) Create a new unit called HDDPhysic where you declare the imported hddphysic library functions :

HddPhysic.pas :

(2) Include the HddPhysic.pas in your project and then Call the Init function to initialize the user computer hard drives and get the total available devices

(3) Now that you have the total hard drives count you can query for the manufacturer information passing the disk index to the GetPhysicInfo function:

Notes: No errors checks are done in this example, you should do some error

  A complete project with source code example for using HDDPhysic component to get hard disk physical information with Delphi (CodeGear Delphi 2009) is available in the resources area of the product (here).

 HDDPhysic supports both 32bit and 64bit systems running under WOW64 as 32bit ap

plications , and, with a new DLL build (HDDPhysic64.dll) , for pure x64 applications.

 If an 32bit application has been written to make use of HDDPhysic.dll then all you need to do is place latest version of HDDPhysic in the same folder as the applications EXEcutable file. Most applications use the 32bit version of the DLL. This version is capable of running on x64 based operating systems as long as it is used from a 32bit application.

 If an 64bit application has been written to make use of HDDPhysic library then all you need to do, is to use the HDDPhysic64.dll build. Everything else is the same.

 Please do note that the 64bit version is available only to registered customers for now. If you did not received the 64bit version kindly please contact us via e-mail.

Source code example for using HDDPhysic component to get hard disk physical info (like the unique hdd serial number) with VB.NET 2005 is now available in the resources area of the product (here).

  Here are some few steps on how you should use it in VB.NET:

(1) Declare imported library functions:
HDiskInfo.vb :

(2) Call the Init function to initialize the user computer hard drives and get the total available devices:
Form1.vb :

(3) Now that you have the total hard drives count you can query for the manufacturer information passing the disk index to the GetPhysicInfo function:

Source code example for using HDDPhysic component in C-sharp (C#) is now available in the resources area of the product (here).

Note: the zip archive contains the compiled exe

HDDPhysic is a stand-alone component ( 32/64-bit Windows dynamic-link library – DLL ) that can be used to extract the physical vendor information from the computer hard disk drive (such as the unique serial number or model number).

Why should I need the physical hard drive info ?

The physical hard disk serial number is a unique number per hard drive

device. it unless you change the hard drive. (You can find the actual physical serial number written on your hard drive, just have a look at the hdd labels if you can access your hardware).

HDDPhysic can also detect where windows is installed, on which hard drive (See GetPhysicInfo function) .

Requirements

- HDDPhysic is a stand-alone component, does not require any other files to work.

- It uses the drivers on Win32/64 platforms so there are no special library/driver requirements.

- It can be used in any programming/scripting language that can make WINAPI calls like: Delphi, C++Builder, C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, VBA, PowerBuilder, Visual Foxpro, Clarion and so on.

- Does not require administrator rights on Win NT/2000/XP/2003/VISTA/7

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