Login script for cleaning up partitions sought

[Mikka]

Hi,

I'd like to use some sort of login script for a Windows PE (Win7PE SE) doing this:

• detect all existing drives (read-write), c:, d:, e: ..., x: (default PE ramdrive)
  
• check each drive on root for a specific folder, i.e. RECYCLER / $Recycle.bin
  
• delete each match
  

I thought of executing this script each time the PE is booted. I don't know what's best for it; probably a cmd/batch script...?

I know, that the desired action could be done using something like rd /q/s c:\RECYCLER and so forth, but it should execute well for several systems (some having merely c:, x:; another one with c:, d:, e:, f:, v:, x: etc.).

My first idea was to use e.g. diskpart to get a list of available (NTFS) volumes and corresponding drive letters.

Dunno how to script this, though.

Any suggestions on this?

Greetings,

Mikka

Edited August 13, 2012 by Mikka

[Mikka]

Okay, I've written a basic script (still alpha) that works for Windows XP and Windows 7. I still have to test it within my PE project.

Instead of diskpart I used wmic (need to verify this for my Win7PESE build as well) to get the relevant NTFS drives.

Here's what I've got so far:

@echo off
REM Need to loop through all available NTFS volumes, excluding volume X: (on any system)
For /f "skip=3" %%i In ('wmic logicaldisk where "filesystem='ntfs'" get Name^') Do If Not "%%i"=="X:" (
	For %%t In ($RECYCLE.BIN RECYCLER "System Volume Information") Do (
		If Exist %%~di\%%t Rd /q/s %%~di\%%t
	)
)

Little problem: If I omit "skip=3" (which might be skip=2 in your case), the script will try twice to delete matches on C:—don't know why.

Any CMD guru reading along who could comment on this (Yzöwl maybe)?

Cheers,

Mikka

Edited August 19, 2012 by Mikka