Name/ID of removable Media: how?

[Tim Golden]

[Ivan Van Laningham]
| Hi All--
| Tim's wmi stuff looked interesting, so I tried it out, and 
| now I have a
| question.
| 

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| The output from the above script (drive d contains cd) is:
| 
| WMI serial D0ADBEE7 3501047527
| 
| win32api serial -793919769 -793919769
| 
| 
| What's the difference between the two serial numbers?  


Try this: hex (-793919769)

You might need to check back on recent discussions here re
negative / positive numbers and hexadecimal.

(Short version: we used to treat hex numbers with the top bit
set as negative decimal numbers; now only negative hex numbers
are negative decimals)

TJG

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