Unable to scan HP hard drive barcode sticker

[bogeygolfer]

This may be the wrong thread but I couldn't find a better one -- sorry in advance.

We are setting up asset tracking and wish to record the model number and serial number of our hardware items. The blue barcode labels found on our HP hard drives are unable to be scanned by the Symbol LS2208 reader that I'm using. What could be the issue here? All of the barcodes on the white label scans just fine, but the blue sticker will not.

Any ideas?

P.S. This thread has been moved from Archived Desktops and Workstations Boards > general to Storage > disk > disk - HP Forums Moderator

[George Liu_4]

most time, you can fetch the HD information from OS. Which OS is the HD on? Is it on a RAID array?

[g1tech]

Some of the drives are not in service, its more of an asset tracking issue - I'm just curious if anyone has successfully scanned the blue HP (or purple Compaq) barcode stickers with a barcode scanner and if so, which model?

[Stephen Bowden]

I just bought a Symbol PocketPC with built in scanner for auditing. It would read our Asset Tag barcodes but not HP bar codes. After going into the reader settings an enabling all the available codes it then started reading them. I just tried it on a HP hard drive and it could read all the barcodes on that. Iâ m not sure which code did the trick and as there are about 30 of them I donâ t really want to go through them one by one to narrow it down. The Reader is a PPT8800 â PPC2003 15Key from Dragon Solutions http://www.dragon-solutions.com/