Assume the following situation:

I have a new, sometimes connected (external USB) hard disc with a new partition K:
on it. BUT this partition is currently NOT formatted (e.g. with NTFS).

How do I detect from command line (program) if
this hard disc resp. partition is currently connected or not ?

Notice: If the partition would be formatted the
solution is simple:

if exist "K:\" Echo K: is existing

But with an unformatted but existing partition the command above does NOT work.

So again: Is there a detection command line program
which gives me a reliable "yes" (errorlevel=1) or no
on this question?

Maybe I need one of these ResourceKit programs from MS or from other software sources

Matt

If the drive is working it should appear here:

Disk Management - enter diskmgmt.msc in the Start => Run box

You can partition and format it from there.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

"Matt Adams" wrote:

> Assume the following situation:
>
> I have a new, sometimes connected (external USB) hard disc with a new partition K:
> on it. BUT this partition is currently NOT formatted (e.g. with NTFS).
>
> How do I detect from command line (program) if
> this hard disc resp. partition is currently connected or not ?
>
> Notice: If the partition would be formatted the
> solution is simple:
>
> if exist "K:\" Echo K: is existing
>
> But with an unformatted but existing partition the command above does NOT work.
>
> So again: Is there a detection command line program
> which gives me a reliable "yes" (errorlevel=1) or no
> on this question?
>
> Maybe I need one of these ResourceKit programs from MS or from other software sources
>
> Matt
>
>