Create Folders You will want separate folders for each type of library on your device. For example, if you want to store music, videos, and photos on your removable device and add them to your libraries, create separate Music, Videos, and Photos folders on the drive. Give the SD Card or USB Drive a Path We will need to make the SD card or USB drive accessible at a different location. To do so, we’ll need the Disk Management utility.

This document pertains to pre-installed memory card readers on HP and Compaq notebook computers and tablets with Windows 8. Check your computer specifications for supported memory card types. Common types of memory cards include: Secure Digital (SD). Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC). Locating the model number, product number, and serial number. Free SD Card Data Recovery, free and safe download. Windows 8; Windows 8.1; Windows 10; Free SD Card Data Recovery 1.5.1.8 16/07/15: Free: English. A serial number is an. If you have reason to change the serial number on your memory card. Finding a unique identifier for SD cards. Read the CID off my SD cards to get serial numbers via a USB card reader in. To the CID or serial number.

Press Windows Key + X or right-click in the bottom left corner of your screen to open the power-user menu, and then click Disk Management. Locate the removable device you want to use in the Disk Management window, right-click it, and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click the Add button to add a new path. Enter a location the removable drive will be accessible at, such as C: USB or C: SD. The location can have any name you like. Your SD card, flash drive, or external hard drive will now be accessible at the location you specified.

It will continue to have its own drive letter, but you can also access it at the new folder location. Add the Folders to Your Libraries You can now add the folders to your libraries. Select a library, click the Manage tab at the top of the File Explorer window, and click Manage Library. Click the Add button and add the appropriate folder to your library.

In our example, we will add C: USB Videos to our library instead of specifying the E: Videos folder. Windows doesn’t notice that the folder is on a removable device and allows you to add it normally. Repeat this process for each library.

Simply add files to the appropriate folder on your SD card or USB drive and they should be accessible in the Xbox Music, Xbox Videos, and Photos apps included with Windows 8 and Windows RT. You could also do this by instead of using the Disk Management window. However, that would require dealing with the Command Prompt.

I can retrieve the serial number of the secure digital card on the Pocketpc by seeding DeviceIOControl with IOCTL_DISK_GET_STORAGEID. It returns a structure of type _STORAGE_IDENTIFICATION that among other things contains a ManufactureID and a Serial Number. That all seems to work The problem is, is that I also need to be able to write a program to get this same serial number and manufactureid on a desktop computer using a card reader to connect to the SD card. It doesn't look like the desktop Win32 API contains the IOCTL_DISK_GET_STORAGEID value for DeviceIOControl. The above answer from someone at MSFT is not helpful. There is a way to get a serial number of a disk under Win32 C/C++, using GetVolumeInformation.

I've been trying to do the same thing as the original poster, however, the GetVolumeInformation under Win32 does NOT return the same number as the DeviceIoControl(.GET_STORAGEID) does under a PocketPC. (yes, I tried the same SD card both places) I view this as a Microsoft BUG, because there really is a serial number in these SD cards, and these two routines under different Microsoft operating systems purport to give the serial number -- but they do not match. Microsoft ought to publish any extra steps that might be taken within the GetVolumeInformation() Win32 call to come up with a serial number. I'm guessing they do some kind of hash of the manufacturer ID AND serial number, which on the SD Card I tried totalled 10 hex digits under the PocketPC (rather than the 8 that appear for a DWORD serial number in GetVolumeInformation) Like the original poster, I would like to install software on an SD card that has its own activation key, such that it will only run from the SD card.

However, this will not be possible unless I can get a 'unique' value for the SD card serial number, that is the same whether queried by a PC or a PocketPC. If someone at Microsoft reads this and wants to track it down for those of us trying it, I have example code projects available for both PC and PocketPC that could be used to verify that my claims are true. Dear all, Sorry for not making my idea clearly. Since you are trying to get the SD card serial number through a Windows application, WMI is a good choice. Actually, when you can get the number from Visual Studio 2005 IDE. On the menu bar, select View->Server Explorer.

Then expand the Server node and navigate to Management Classes->Disk Volumes. Right click the volume you want to check and select Properties in the popup menu, you can find all the information is listed in the Properties window, including VolumeSerialNumber. You can use WMI (System.Management namespace) to program with ease. Hope this can help, Zero Dai - MSFT.

Again, not helpful. Except that maybe I can dig around to see how to talk to WMI from C++. We are _not_ looking for an application capable of telling us the serial number, nor for a C# or VB method of doing this.

We are interested in doing it with C++ and the Win32 API -- and most importantly, getting the same values both from PocketPC C++ and from Win32 C++. In addition, when trying this, I find that it still does not report the same information as the above-discussed methods for finding the SD serial number on the PocketPC.

For the same card, this VS2005 method gets 0xfc303da9 (8 hex digits), and the program for the PDA gets manufacturer ID 0x1C, serial number 0x000003A71B (2 manufacturer digits, and 10 serial number digits) The WMI method finds exactly the same serial number as just running `dir f: ` from a command prompt, which is the same result as using the Win32 API function GetVolumeInformation(). We still need a way to get the same number in both PocketPC and Win32 -- I don't care if it's been hashed into 32-bit number, as long as the same number is found under both platforms. MSFT: Please just document what is done inside the GetVolumeInformation() Win32 function to the more-than-32-bit string of digits reported by the card (my card gets 12 hex digits), to generate the 32-bit ID which GetVolumeInformation returns. There are two different things being discussed here: the volume serial number of the file system on the SD card and the hardware serial number of the SD card. The volume serial number is exposed by GetVolumeInformation but this is specific to the file system on the card, not the physical card itself.

It can also be changed by writing to the BPB of the file system on the card. It would certainly be nice if the hardware serial number was as easily retrievable as using IOCTL_DISK_GET_STORAGEID on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, but that interface doesn't exist. There are some sources of information that you can look.

• The program USBDeview at • C# source at • The thread at From what I have seen, I think it might be possible to get the serial number of an SD card from an ATA Inquiry command sent to the device. There are clear serial numbers present (shown by USBDeview) for thumb drives. I'm trying right now to do the same and I think I'm close to a possible solution.

I've started with using this code posted online by jo0ls But the problem with this code is that it only returns a Manufacturer ID and a 'Serial No' which I'm not sure is good. I've tried to tweak it to read the entire Register CID part of a SD Card but got no good results from this. I've also contact the SD Association, they couldn't help me on that. And I'm still waiting a response from Microsoft about this issue. I've read on the MS website that there is a drive / library that MS inputed in SP2 of Windows XP but I can't find any information about this. Here's the link: I was wondering if you found a solution for this problem or an alternative solution about this issue. The link in the thread above to some code by me doesn't get the CID.

It gets the volume serial which changes when the disk is formatted (see cdrguru's post). I believe I have managed to get the CID in Windows (XP/Vista) using a non-usb card reader - it only works with the type of reader connected directly to the main bus, (I use the sd card reader slot in my laptop), and only with certain drivers for the reader! So, its useless as it isn't portable. You use to send Cmd 10 from the SD Card specs. See: For mobile devices, I think it won't work.

It seems to be driver dependent - I've tried. I guess the drivers aren't forwarding the messages. I believe SD cards are being used for security, but only where the software is made by the company that makes the device - so they can ensure that the OS can fetch the CID. Note: is on the way in the. It is a standard to authenticate UFDs (usb flash devices) and other removable storage media. So maybe in a few years it will be possible. Hi there, I have also done allot of research on this topic and ended up empty handed,we need this for serial parsing and encryption for individual customer issued software.

I have been in contact with the guys at Aimtec which distributes Addonics flash card readers and they informed me that the new eSATA/USB drive (they are marketing will be able to read the CID number of SD/MMC cards with updated firmware. I will know by Monday if they are willing to provide me with updated firmware,which will probably set me back a bit seeing it is a once of update. The sales guys also informed me that if there is a demand for such a firmware update from the public,project developers ect. Then they will seriously consider marketing this drive with this capability.From what i have seen and read on various forums,i think the demand might be enormous,it will save allot of people valuable time and money.In the end i think it is only possible to get the CID from the low level firmware which will pass this on to the high level application.

Any way,let me know what u guys think. Kme Diego Software Deutsch.