How to obtain Disk Drive Device ID's from hardware that fails to show in the DevViewer Tool

Products

• Endpoint Protection

Issue/Introduction

When using the DevViewer Tool to obtain Device ID's from disks, it sometimes fails to retrieve device ID's from additionally mounted partitions.

Resolution

In the registry there is a list of installed disks. This will list their device ID's as well as other information.

You can find this list of devices here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Disk\Enum

 

The values will be labeled 0, 1, 2, etc. The value data for each of these will contain the device ID.

 

For example:

"1           REG_SZ           USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_&Prod_Patriot_Memory&Rev_PMAP\078807B90E1D&0"