how to get hard disk serial number with action scr

Question

I'm using action script 3.0 compiling the code to flash 10

how to get hard disk serial number with action script?

I want to get this info without any security requirement. Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

You could get all the physical media for a device from a C# console application and output each physical medium and its properties as an xml. Then in an Air application using the NativeApplication API you can get said physical medium and its properties, namely the serial number for a hard disk drive. I made an example of this:

GetPhysicalMedia.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Management;

namespace GetPhysicalMedia
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ManagementClass managementClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_PhysicalMedia");

            String physicalMediaXml = "";

            physicalMediaXml += "<physicalMedia>\n";

            foreach (ManagementObject managementObject in managementClass.GetInstances())
            {
                physicalMediaXml += "\t<physicalMedium ";
                physicalMediaXml += "caption" + "='" + managementObject["Caption"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "description" + "='" + managementObject["Description"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "installDate" + "='" + managementObject["InstallDate"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "name" + "='" + managementObject["Name"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "status" + "='" + managementObject["Status"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "creationClassName" + "='" + managementObject["CreationClassName"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "manufacturer" + "='" + managementObject["Manufacturer"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "model" + "='" + managementObject["Model"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "sku" + "='" + managementObject["SKU"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "serialNumber" + "='" + managementObject["SerialNumber"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "tag" + "='" + Regex.Replace((String)managementObject["Tag"], "\\\\", "&#92;") +"' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "version" + "='" + managementObject["Version"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "partNumber" + "='" + managementObject["PartNumber"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "otherIdentifyingInfo" + "='" + managementObject["OtherIdentifyingInfo"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "poweredOn" + "='" + managementObject["PoweredOn"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "removable" + "='" + managementObject["Removable"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "replaceable" + "='" + managementObject["Replaceable"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "hotSwappable" + "='" + managementObject["HotSwappable"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "capacity" + "='" + managementObject["Capacity"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "mediaType" + "='" + managementObject["MediaType"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "mediaDescription" + "='" + managementObject["MediaDescription"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "writeProtectOn" + "='" + managementObject["WriteProtectOn"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "cleanerMedia" + "='" + managementObject["CleanerMedia"] + "' ";
                physicalMediaXml += "/>\n";

            }// end foreach

            physicalMediaXml += "</physicalMedia>\n";

            Console.WriteLine(physicalMediaXml);

        }// end method

    }// end class

}// end namespace

Main.as:

package 
{
    import flash.desktop.NativeProcess;
    import flash.desktop.NativeProcessStartupInfo;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
    import flash.filesystem.File;

    public class Main extends Sprite 
    {
        private var _nativeProcess:NativeProcess;
        private var _nativeProcessSUI:NativeProcessStartupInfo;
        private var _physicalMedia:XML;

        public function Main():void 
        {
            _nativeProcess = new NativeProcess();
            _nativeProcessSUI = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();

            _nativeProcessSUI.executable = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("GetPhysicalMedia.exe");
            _nativeProcess.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_DATA, onNativeProcessSOD);
            _nativeProcess.addEventListener(Event.STANDARD_OUTPUT_CLOSE, onNativeProcessSOC);
            _nativeProcess.start(_nativeProcessSUI);

        }// end function

        private function onNativeProcessSOD(e:ProgressEvent):void
        {
            _physicalMedia = XML(_nativeProcess.standardOutput.readUTFBytes(_nativeProcess.standardOutput.bytesAvailable));

        }// end function

        private function onNativeProcessSOC(e:Event):void
        {
            trace(_physicalMedia.physicalMedium.(String(@tag).search("PHYSICALDRIVE0") > -1).@serialNumber); // output: V5FEVZ2W
            trace(_physicalMedia.physicalMedium.(String(@tag).search("PHYSICALDRIVE1") > -1).@serialNumber); // output: WD-WCASU2856512 

        }// end function

    }// end class

}// end package

This is an example of the output you get for GetPhysicalMedia.exe:

<physicalMedia>
  <physicalMedium caption="" description="" installDate="" name="" status="" creationClassName="" manufacturer="" model="" sku="" serialNumber="V5FEVZ2W            " tag="\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0" version="" partNumber="" otherIdentifyingInfo="" poweredOn="" removable="" replaceable="" hotSwappable="" capacity="" mediaType="" mediaDescription="" writeProtectOn="" cleanerMedia=""/>
  <physicalMedium caption="" description="" installDate="" name="" status="" creationClassName="" manufacturer="" model="" sku="" serialNumber="WD-WCASU2856512     " tag="\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1" version="" partNumber="" otherIdentifyingInfo="" poweredOn="" removable="" replaceable="" hotSwappable="" capacity="" mediaType="" mediaDescription="" writeProtectOn="" cleanerMedia=""/>
  <physicalMedium caption="" description="" installDate="" name="" status="" creationClassName="" manufacturer="" model="" sku="" serialNumber="516256L411          " tag="\\.\CDROM0" version="" partNumber="" otherIdentifyingInfo="" poweredOn="" removable="" replaceable="" hotSwappable="" capacity="" mediaType="" mediaDescription="" writeProtectOn="" cleanerMedia=""/>
</physicalMedia>

Answer 2

There is no way to do that from FlashPlayer. You might ask for the user to type it manually the first time, use a SharedObject and never ask again.

With AIR you can fork native OS process and communicate it to obtain HDD serial number:

var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();  
var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("some_hdd_utility.exe");  
nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;  
var processArgs:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>();  
processArgs.push("someArgs");  
nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = processArgs;  
process = new NativeProcess();  
process.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_DATA, onOutputData);  
process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);  
public function onOutputData(event:ProgressEvent):void  
{  
    var stdOut:ByteArray = process.standardOutput;  
    var data:String = stdOut.readUTFBytes(process.standardOutput.bytesAvailable);  
    trace("Got: ", data);  
}

Hope this helps.