more compatible batch file for ording drive letters

[victor888]

WMI is too powerful, most valuable link: http://www.windows-management.com/scriptin...cal/#ADPPDD.htm

FOR WIN2K3 AND VISTA diskpart, mountvol etc are of no use.

Edited October 28, 2008 by victor888

[jaclaz]

WMI is too powerful, most valuable link: http://www.windows-management.com/scriptin...cal/#ADPPDD.htm

Nice VBS script.

I'll try to replicate it's approach.

jaclaz

[victor888]

Jaclaz go!

I am studying wmi/wmic these days too, hope an smart script come out ealier under your work and my support.

[jaclaz]

Find attached another example.

Nothing actually working, but a little step further.

Check testwmic3.cmd:

Finding the escaping characters needed to use the "Where" operator with the value "Disk #m, Partition #n" and redirecting failing instances to nul can only be described as a nightmare!

Rule seems to be that you need to enclose the Where argument into brackets () to be able to use the quotes "" inside it, and when in a FOR loop:

equal sign = needs to be escaped

quotes " and commas , (that normally would need to be escaped) need NOT to be escaped

jaclaz

testwmic2_3.zip

[victor888]

Very good example. I will study it asap.

[jaclaz]

It seems to me that after all WMIC is not "the" solution, but it may be part of it.

I seem not to be able through WMIC to "find a relationship" between PHYSICALDRIVEs and LogicalDrives when the device is "Removable".

Moreover it seems like the available data go as deep as finding Extended Partitions but not deep enough to find Logical Volumes inside them.

Find attached another example, it seems to me that it gathers all available data through WMIC.

jaclaz

getdriveletters.zip

[victor888]

you make more progress in using wmic.

I will try to continue.

[jaclaz]

Almost, but not quite, completely unrelated

symbol2mvol.cmd

Uses:

Listdosdevices:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html

VLM (part of the DSFOK package):

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/

Output sample:

C:\Downloaded\victor888>symbol2mvol
C: FIX \\.\Volume{b0b284c3-8a33-11dd-8781-806d6172696f} \HarddiskVolume1
D: CDR \\.\Volume{80cf88c2-8a34-11dd-813c-806d6172696f} \CdRom0
E: FIX \\.\Volume{b0b284c4-8a33-11dd-8781-806d6172696f} \HarddiskVolume2
G: REM \\.\Volume{80cf88c4-8a34-11dd-813c-806d6172696f} \Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+b
H: REM \\.\Volume{80cf88c5-8a34-11dd-813c-806d6172696f} \Harddisk5\DP(1)0-0+c
I: REM \\.\Volume{80cf88c6-8a34-11dd-813c-806d6172696f} \Harddisk6\DP(1)0-0+d
J: FIX \\.\Volume{98f06d4c-9506-11dd-8147-001fc6bb76ce} \HarddiskVolume3
K: FIX \\.\Volume{98f06d4d-9506-11dd-8147-001fc6bb76ce} \HarddiskVolume4
L: FIX \\.\Volume{98f06d4e-9506-11dd-8147-001fc6bb76ce} \HarddiskVolume5
M: FIX \\.\Volume{98f06d4f-9506-11dd-8147-001fc6bb76ce} \HarddiskVolume6
N: REM \\.\Volume{80cf88c3-8a34-11dd-813c-806d6172696f} \Harddisk3\DP(1)0-0+a
S: REM \\.\Volume{5d3e8800-9c1f-11dd-8148-001fc6bb76ce} \Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+5

Runnning listdosdevices with a /? parameters outputs a mess of data, maybe it can be useful.

A similar app is dosdev:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html

and on the same page there is devioctl.

Devioctl with the GEOMETRY <drive> parameters gives the needed info, <drive> can be:

• drive letter
  
• PhysicalDriven
  

(but it won't work -obviously- for Removable devices where no media is inserted )

jaclaz

symbol2mvol.cmd

Edited November 2, 2008 by jaclaz

[victor888]

I found one more powerfull disk tool here: http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/sysinte...648(en-us).aspx

DiskExt v1.1 which gives each disk it mount volume and drive letters.

[jaclaz]

DiskExt v1.1 which gives each disk it mount volume and drive letters.

Yep , but it won't give you ANY more info than mountvol for Removable devices like SD card readers when there is no media in them.....

A more useful app is the dd for windows version by John Newbigin:

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

try running

dd --list

jaclaz

Edited November 4, 2008 by jaclaz

[wimb]

Almost, but not quite, completely unrelated

symbol2mvol.cmd

Nice presentation

Thanks for this HANDY Program

wimb

[victor888]

In fact ervery thing about disk information is in the registry. I will try to get my answer there and not use others tool.

[victor888]

Diskpart and fsutil are no longer needed.

I found the secret in registry.

I am compositing the batch now.

[jaclaz]

Diskpart and fsutil are no longer needed.

I found the secret in registry.

I am compositing the batch now.

GOOD news.

jaclaz

[wim]

Hi Jaclaz, function have been added.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Switching-drive-...rs-t125992.html

Wim

Edited November 21, 2008 by wim