[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Arthur,

Download a free program called SIW from www.gtropala.com or Google SIW. Run 
the program and then on the left tree click on Hardware/storage devices. 
Then highlight the hard drive on the top of the right hand window and you 
will find more information about the hard drive than you can ever want to 
know in the lower pane.

You will then find that SIW will give you all kinds of data about your 
computer including some passwords, license codes and on and on.

If you are using Vista you will get can't load a dll but most things work 
anyway if you keep on going.


HTH

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:41 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box


A while back I started a thread about determining the CPU type without
opening the box, and received several good answers. Now I'm wondering
whether I can determine the type of hard drive(s) installed -- maker, size,
rpm, IDE or SCSI or SATA, etc.

Anyone know?

TIA,
Arthur
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