MattNis Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 How can I get the volume number of a CDROM? I need to know which letter is for CDROM0, CDROM1, etc....The drive letters are not necessarily in the same order as the the volume numbers. [quote]I was busy waiting all night for the Columbus Day Bunny to come down my chimney and light fireworks in my pumpkin.There's so much wrong with that.Oh, I'm sorry, i forgot you were Jewish.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scriptkitty Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 (edited) If you want a reverse lookup for the volume name, test out this: MsgBox(1,"VolumeName is",vol("VolumeName")) ; use would be $Driveletter=vol("VolumeName") Func vol($volume) $drive=StringSplit ("a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z",","); I am lazy For $x=1 To 26; still 26 letters right? $var = DriveGetLabel( $drive[$x]&":\" ) ; note this returns 1 if none found, or drive doesnt' exist ;If $var<>"1" Then MsgBox(4096,"Volume Label:",$drive[$x]&":\"& $var); if you want to watch it work, uncomment this line If $var=$volume Then Return $drive[$x]&":\" Next Edited January 13, 2004 by scriptkitty AutoIt3, the MACGYVER Pocket Knife for computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trids Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 DriveGetDrive ( "CDROM" ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattNis Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 Thank you for your replies, but none of the solutions are what I wanted. I tried DriveGetLabel before and it doesn't do what I need. If you right click on My Computer and choose Manage, then click on Disk Management You will see Disk 0, and perhaps Disk 1, Disk 2, etc depending on how many drives you have You will also see CDROM0, CDROM1, CDROM2, depending on how many cdroms you have. now, each harddrive may have several partitions, and the drive letters could be randomly scattered across drives Disk 0 = C, G, K Disk 1 = D, L, Z CDROM0 = H CDROM1 = Q I want to use DiskPart as a command line tool to rename the user's CDROM, (the very cdrom that they are running my script from) to a different letter. They could run this from either cdrom0 or cdrom1....and I do not know what letter it will be until they actually run the script. DiskPart takes the volume number as a parameter. When there is just one cdrom, I tell it to rename Volume 0 and we're all safe. But if there is more than one..... then if he runs it from drive Q, I want to rename Volume 1 to some other letter, otherwise rename Volume 0 to some other letter. Maybe I'm just missing a simple solution... DriveGetDriive just gives the drive letters in alphabetical order, and I'm not sure what other order it's capable of. DriveGetLabel just gives the label, and not the volume number. thank you much [quote]I was busy waiting all night for the Columbus Day Bunny to come down my chimney and light fireworks in my pumpkin.There's so much wrong with that.Oh, I'm sorry, i forgot you were Jewish.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jos Posted January 14, 2004 Developers Share Posted January 14, 2004 you could use diskpart to get the info into a file: FileWriteLine ("coms.txt", "list volume" ) runwait(@comspec & '\diskpart /S coms.txt > result.txt') then read result.txt in your script and findthe info you need ... SciTE4AutoIt3 Full installer Download page - Beta files Read before posting How to post scriptsource Forum etiquette Forum Rules Live for the present, Dream of the future, Learn from the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattNis Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 thanks that works but it takes a while...no less than 20 seconds for diskpart to finish...even on a P4. I was just wondering if there's a built in way but using diskpart itself works for the time being [quote]I was busy waiting all night for the Columbus Day Bunny to come down my chimney and light fireworks in my pumpkin.There's so much wrong with that.Oh, I'm sorry, i forgot you were Jewish.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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