How to Find a Drive's Volume Label or Serial Number using Commmand Prompt
• It is called the Volume Serial Number. It is generated at the time of creating and formatting the volume / partition.
• You can get it by using a command at command prompt : C:\>vol c: if C: is the drive you want to retrieve the Volume Serial Number for.
• All you can do is redirect the output of that command to a file : C:\>vol c: > myvol.txt and it will be stored as a text file in your C:
This gets the manufacturers serial number of the hard drive.
wmic disk drive get serial number
If you have many hard drives like me, use this instead to help you know which is which: wmic diskdrive get name,size,model,SerialNumber