Thread: How To Get Your SD Card ID in Your Garmin Device

Originally Posted by Neil

@happykid57
As stated by dvazg in his edit to that post 18 months ago "Where is the card ID....?",
and as stated by you "...."the real hard drive ID" is the same regardless what drive I select." I long ago gave up on that so-called hardware ID extractor.

I freely admit to a very shallow understanding of running command prompts, and was under the impression that a dir command on a drive only yields the "Volume Serial Number". Could you explain more fully how to get the CID using >dir?

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that that you can get the CID using the DIR command. You only get the "Volume Serial Number" (I called it the partition ID) when you issue the DIR command. You can also get the Volume Serial Number using the free utility "Speccy" which you can download for free from filehippo.com.