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

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Article ID: 152762

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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"