Find partition letters on physical drives using wmic
The wmic
command is a bit different then either the VB or Powershell syntax.
The relevant syntax for wmic
is:
wmic <command> where <conditional> Assoc /assocclass:<class>
Specifically to solve the task above:
wmic DiskDrive where "DeviceID='\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE<disk_index>'" Assoc /assocclass:Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition
Will return the partitions on the drive with the given index.
wmic partition where (DeviceID="<partition_id>") assoc /assocclass:Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition
Will return the volumes on the partition with the given id.
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TwistedTech almost 2 years
I am looking for a way to list drives and the partitions on them. Specifically I am looking to prompt a user for a drive to format and I want to show them the exists partitions so they can confirm their choice.
I have found the wmic commands to list disk drives, logical disks, partitions, and volumes but I can not find a way associate the volumes to physical drives.
I also found a powershell script that does what I want. The script uses gwmi and I don't know how to convert the commands into wmic. http://jrich523.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/using-wmi-to-link-a-disk-volume-to-a-physical-disk-with-powershell/
Is there a way to get a list of volumes on a physical disk using wmic?