Since you are trying to get the SD card serial number through a. It gets the volume serial which changes when the disk is formatted (see.

There is a manufacturer's serial number on SD cards, and there are a number of pages on the 'net that describe how to retrieve it on various mobile devices (including this one). But I need to retrieve it under desktop versions of Windows, and the code that works for mobile versions of Windows doesn't seem to translate.

The question: how do you programmatically retrieve the SD card manufacturer's serial number from an SD card under desktop Windows?

EDIT: From what I gather, this can be done using the DeviceIoControl's IOCTL_SFFDISK_DEVICE_COMMAND to send command 10 from the SD Card specs, but it's unreliable -- it only works with certain non-USB card readers, and only with certain drivers for those readers. That makes it useless for our purposes. Maybe someone else can get some use from the information.

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Well, you could do this using SetupDiXXX api calls (see this Code Project example) or if I'm not mistaken using WMI queries.

I'm not very versatile using WMI queries but I'm sure there's a ton of info on the net about it.

Using the SetupDiXXX methods you can query for present devices of a specific class (you would have to look up the device class for SD cards) and then enumerate through the devices present in the computer, reading the Manufacturer Serial number.

For reference on SetupDiXXX functions, see the following

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If you have a GPS device or other portable device that uses an SD card you may need the SD card ID. This is sometimes required to view maps on GPS units or GPS-enabled smart phones. The SD card ID is not printed on the card itself, so you have to put the card into your computer to figure out the SD card ID number. Once you can open the SD card on your computer you are able to extract the SD card ID from the card.

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Open the SD card in a window through “My Computer.”

Step 3

Select “Tools” and then “Folder Options.” Click “View” and put a check mark by 'Show hidden files and folders' and remove the mark by “'Hide protected operating system files.” Before you can proceed, a warning will appear on the screen.

Step 4

Click “Yes” then “Apply” and then “OK” to move past the warning screen.

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Step 6

Look down the file in “Notepad” until you see a line that starts with “SD Serial Number.” Write down the first eight numbers in the SD serial number.

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