2007-12-17 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind ProductsDon’t confuse the volume label with the 32-bit binary volume serial number sometimes called the volser assigned to a floppy or hard drive partition when it is low-level formatted.
There is a third type of serial number, hard to get at, put there by the hard disk manufacturer called the manufacturer serial number.
You can discover the volume label and volume serial number with a simple dir command at the Windows command prompt.
You can determine the list of all drives' volume labels like this:
On my machine the output looks roughly like this:| full:[C system acer (C:)] | chopped:[C system acer] |
| full:[BOOTIT (D:)] | chopped:[BOOTIT] |
| full:[E Data (E:)] | chopped:[E Data] |
| full:[F programs (F:)] | chopped:[F programs] |
| full:[G attic (G:)] | chopped:[G attic] |
| full:[E Data (J:)] | chopped:[E Data] |
| full:[] | chopped:[] |
| full:[] | chopped:[] |
| full:[] | chopped:[] |
| full:[Q EXCHANGE (Q:)] | chopped:[Q EXCHANGE] |
| full:[DVD RW Drive (V:) Dec 16 2007] | chopped:[DVD RW Drive] |
| full:[] | chopped:[] |
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