Get capability of empty CD/DVD drive

[c.haslam]

How can get the label of an empty CD/DVD drive? i.e. what shows in Explorer when there is no disc in the drive.

I know that _WinAPI_GetCDType() returns the type of disc that is in a CD/DVD drive, but this is not what I need.

[caramen]

 

Sorry for the circles i just wake up ;p

[spudw2k]

Have you tried

DriveGetLabel()

 

[c.haslam]

My experience is that DriveGetLabel() only works if the DriveStatus() is READY. A CD drive with no CD in it is not READY so DriveGetabel() returns ''.

 

[caramen]

as i said i was just waking up  

Sorry for my misinterpretation of capability  with capacity 

You can do that with: 

StringRegExp

Same way as my first reply... 

 

Even

_StringBetween & Select & Case

I dont know a more easy way with autoit.

But... With command line, that is able to be done with autoIT... You can do this

;Open a console then type:

wmic logicaldisk get name

;Press Enter and you will see the list of Drives.

;You can also use the following parameter:

wmic logicaldisk get caption

;List Drives in Command Prompt 2

;Using the following will display Device ID and label:

wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description

;Fsutil tool
fsutil fsinfo drives

;It will show mapped drives too.

;Diskpart tool
diskpart
;Next use the following command:
list volume

You got multiple way to do it...And then Get the label inside a Value with a lot of way too

Edited October 3, 2018 by caramen

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@c.haslam
What is the goal of your script?
You want to retrieve the Label of the CD-ROM, or you want to know if there is a CD-ROM inserted in the CD-ROM drive of your PC?
Because the title of your thread says a thing, and you are saying another thing.
 

[caramen]

I was gonna ask same but after his answer i understood that he just need the label of an empty reader.... becose DriveGetLabel()  return an empty string

 

@c.haslam ?

[c.haslam]

caramen, you are correct: I need the label that Computer shows when there is no CD/DVD in the drive. On my test PC, I see BD-ROM Drive (D:)

FileSelectFolder('xx','') shows the same thing.

But on another PC (an older one?) something different probably shows. My script should show whatever any PC shows, so I don't want to hard-code BD-ROM Drive (D:).

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@c.haslam
Since Drive* functions are not getting what you want, here a little workaround for your request:

Global $objWMI, _
       $strWMI_Query = "", _
       $objWMI_QueryResult, _
       $objWMI_Item


$objWMI = ObjGet("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
If IsObj($objWMI) Then
    $strWMI_Query = "SELECT Availability, Caption, Description, DeviceID, Drive, Name, Status, SystemName, VolumeName, VolumeSerialNumber FROM Win32_CDROMDrive"

    $objWMI_QueryResult = $objWMI.ExecQuery($strWMI_Query, "WQL")

    For $objWMI_Item In $objWMI_QueryResult
        ConsoleWrite("Availability: " & $objWMI_Item.Availability & @CRLF & _
                     "Caption: " & $objWMI_Item.Caption & @CRLF & _
                     "Description: " & $objWMI_Item.Description & @CRLF & _
                     "DeviceID: " & $objWMI_Item.DeviceID & @CRLF & _
                     "Drive: " & $objWMI_Item.Drive & @CRLF & _
                     "Name: " & $objWMI_Item.Name & @CRLF & _
                     "Status: " & $objWMI_Item.Status & @CRLF & _
                     "SystemName: " & $objWMI_Item.SystemName & @CRLF & _
                     "VolumeSerialNumber: " & $objWMI_Item.VolumeSerialNumber & @CRLF)
    Next

    $objWMI = 0
    $objWMI_QueryResult = 0
    $objWMI_Item = 0
EndIf

Take a look to Win32_CDROMDrive for other information

[c.haslam]

Thank you. I have tried ConsoleWriting all of the properties, but none show BD-ROM Drive per se. Strange!

[caramen]

Why not extract the cmd result...?

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@c.haslam

Post the code you are running

Edited October 7, 2018 by FrancescoDiMuro

[caramen]

#include <Constants.au3>



 
 Local $cDisk = Run(@ComSpec & " /c wmic logicaldisk get name" , @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
 Global $cData = ""
      While 1
        $line = StdoutRead($cDisk)
        If @error Then ExitLoop
        $cData &= $line
      WEnd

 MsgBox (0,"",""&$cData)

 

Edited October 7, 2018 by caramen

[caramen]

Bit improved... 

#include <Constants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>



 ;Local $cDisk = Run(@ComSpec & " /c wmic logicaldisk get name" , @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
 ;Local $cDisk = Run(@ComSpec & " /c wmic logicaldisk get caption" , @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
 Local $cDisk = Run(@ComSpec & " /c wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description" , @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
 Global $cData = ""
      While 1
        $line = StdoutRead($cDisk)
        If @error Then ExitLoop
        $cData &= $line
      WEnd


 MsgBox (0,"",""&$cData)

$cSplitedData = StringSplit ($cData,@CRLF)
$cStripedData = StringStripCR ( $cData )
$cSplitedStripedData = StringSplit ($cStripedData,@CRLF)

I let you do the rest ;p

Edited October 7, 2018 by caramen

[c.haslam]

On my PC, this identifies D: as CD-ROM Disc, not BD-ROM Drive

[c.haslam]

The example for _WinAPI_GetCDType() returns "no media"

[Earthshine]

and you have not posted any code. you should know better.

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@c.haslam
From this code, what it's returned from the Caption property?
 

[c.haslam]

Francesco,

Availability: 3
Caption: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS29 ATA Device
Description: CD-ROM Drive
DeviceID: IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_UH12NS29_______________1.00____\5&3A0C046F&0&1.0.0
Drive: D:
Name: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS29 ATA Device
Status: OK
SystemName: MOLLY
VolumeSerialNumber:

[caramen]

StringInStr ( "string", "substring" [, casesense = 0 [, occurrence = 1 [, start = 1 [, count]]]] )

 

xD