Batch file to show Network drives

[Esra Sdrawkcab]

One traditional, UNIX-flavored way of getting rid of nul characters in a
string is using a TR port

fsutil fsinfo drives|tr -d \000

Or SED
fsutil fsinfo drives|sed -e "s/\x00/ /g"

But indeed, fortunately, the more trick does the same as can be readily
seen with any hex lister. Also, as was recently discussed in another
connection, the more conveniently adds a 0D 0A pair at the end of the
output, if it is missing. Well, in this case it is not.

Not that fsutil fsinfo is the only way of listing ones active drives!
The code below will give a list of devices that are _ready_

@echo off & setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
for %%d in (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 do (
dir %%d\ > nul 2>&1
if !errorlevel! EQU 0 echo %%d
)
endlocal & goto :EOF

E.g. one might get
C:\_D\TEST>cmdfaq
c:
d:
e:

All the best, Timo

Mmm I see Ms have dropped the hoary "Abort Retry Ignore" message

 

[Herb Martin]

The following works on 2003 and Vista but is really slow (at least
on 2003) when it encounters a disconnected network drive letter that *IS*
mapped:

ALL ONE LINE FOLLOWING:

for %%a in (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) do @if
exist %%a:\lpt1 @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a:


This takes advantage of the pseudo file "LPT1" which has been
around since early DOS to prevent confusion with file names
that are the same as the Print device name (IIRC).

"if exist c:\lpt1" is TRUE if c:\ exists otherwise it is false.

I like the " | more +1 /S" best I think for 2003.

I thought I found a trick with FindStr that would convert the nulls
to dots, but it was just cosmetic on the screen and the pipe didn't
do that.

The following LOOKS good on the screen but isn't useful as far
as I can tell:

fsutil fsinfo drives | findstr \\

Is there anyway to get a NULL into "delims="????

 

[Herb Martin]

Ok (after obsessing a bit) this work on (at least) XP/2003:

[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%a


And this version works on (at least) Vista:
[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do @for %%A
in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%A


Oddly enought the XP/2003 is not less awkward.

Output looks like this (with fix width font so it lines up there):

A: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
F: - CD-ROM Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - CD-ROM Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
O: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
Q: - Remote/Network Drive
R: - CD-ROM Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
V: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive
Y: - Remote/Network Drive
Z: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Dean Wells \(MVP\)]

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive from
working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ... but,
seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and will
readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are'
band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch syntax:
that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.' Anyway, I came up with
this improvement on my original syntax, it too limits the number of
iterations resulting from the for loop to only those necessary (note
that it's a one-liner; well, sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

 

[foxidrive]

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive from
working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ... but,
seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and will
readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are'
band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch syntax:
that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.'

Here's more conventional syntax in my contribution after following this
thread:


@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives^|more') do call :next "%%a"
goto :EOF
:next
set "var=%~1"
set "var=%var:~-3,2%"
fsutil fsinfo drivetype %var%
shift
if not %1.==. goto :next

 

[Dean Wells \(MVP\)]

Hi, I think there's an error in there, at least from Vista's perspective
.... this is the result from Vista's shell <paste> -

C:\>foo

C:\>rem @echo off

C:\>for /F "delims=" %a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives |more') do call :next
"%a"

C:\>call :next "Drives: C:\ D:\ E:\ "

C:\>set "var=Drives: C:\ D:\ E:\ "

C:\>set "var=:\"

C:\>fsutil fsinfo drivetype :\
:\ - No such Root Directory

C:\>shift

C:\>if not . == . goto :next

C:\>goto :EOF

 

[foxidrive]

Hi, I think there's an error in there, at least from Vista's perspective
... this is the result from Vista's shell <paste> -

Nods.

It works under XP pro - I don't have Vista to test with.

 

[Herb Martin]

Nods.

It works under XP pro - I don't have Vista to test with.

I have some extra *personal* criteria:

General principle: Runs on anybody's machine (where it makes sense)

No temp files if they can be avoided
No VBScript if it can be avoided -- once necessary go to Perl or Ruby
(But ONLY Perl is on ALL of my machines though Ruby is gaining
ground)
No external utilities if they can be avoided, Support tools not as bad as
other
stuff, Reskit, then UnxUtils, and some of my own personal tools, then
Cygwin

Prefer not to use environment variables, but this is not a rule
Once line when possible but don't get crazy
Working as a DosKey macros is desirable
(Although I use this for starting externa programs that aren't on the
path too)
Preferably works on all versions of the OS (where the program makes sense)

If it is too difficult for those rules then use Perl, Ruby, or a custom C/C#
program

So repeating my best efforts from last night:

[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%a


And this version works on (at least) Vista:
[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do @for %%A
in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%A


Oddly enought the XP/2003 is not less awkward.

Output looks like this (with fix width font so it lines up there):

A: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
F: - CD-ROM Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - CD-ROM Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
O: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
Q: - Remote/Network Drive
R: - CD-ROM Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
V: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive
Y: - Remote/Network Drive
Z: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Herb Martin]

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive from
working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ... but,
seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and will readily
jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are' band-wagon whilst
striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch syntax: that ever elusive
'let's make it a one-liner.' Anyway, I came up with this improvement on
my original syntax, it too limits the number of iterations resulting from
the for loop to only those necessary (note that it's a one-liner; well,
sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c type
"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Cool. I never did understand (or really isolate) your Unicode trick
from that big batch file -- the one to remove the NULLS.

I ended up using a pipe to find on XP -- after using more as the
next best thing but admitting that more will fail (or at least ask for
key to continue) if there are more drives than screen lines.)

This last isn't a giant deal as I keep my screen MUCH bigger than
the maximum (?) 26 drive letters but not everyone does all of the
time.

 

[Dean Wells \(MVP\)]

Nod, I thought of the same thing re: the letter-depth but figured it's
so nigh-on moot for the same reasons ...

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive
from working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ...
but, seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and
will readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are'
band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch
syntax: that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.' Anyway, I
came up with this improvement on my original syntax, it too limits
the number of iterations resulting from the for loop to only those
necessary (note that it's a one-liner; well, sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil
fsinfo drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Cool. I never did understand (or really isolate) your Unicode trick
from that big batch file -- the one to remove the NULLS.

I ended up using a pipe to find on XP -- after using more as the
next best thing but admitting that more will fail (or at least ask for
key to continue) if there are more drives than screen lines.)

This last isn't a giant deal as I keep my screen MUCH bigger than
the maximum (?) 26 drive letters but not everyone does all of the
time.

 

[Esra Sdrawkcab]

Ok (after obsessing a bit) this work on (at least) XP/2003:

[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%a

well for me (XP Pro) it also gives a spurious Drives line:

Drives: - No such Root Directory
C:\ - Fixed Drive
D:\ - Fixed Drive
E:\ - Fixed Drive
Q:\ - CD-ROM Drive

where I have an "A" floppy drive with no disk present:

C:\WINDOWS>fsutil fsinfo drives

Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ Q:\

C:\WINDOWS>

 

[Herb Martin]

Ok (after obsessing a bit) this work on (at least) XP/2003:

[Following is all one line for a batch file: drives.cmd]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%a

well for me (XP Pro) it also gives a spurious Drives line:

Drives: - No such Root Directory
C:\ - Fixed Drive
D:\ - Fixed Drive
E:\ - Fixed Drive
Q:\ - CD-ROM Drive

where I have an "A" floppy drive with no disk present:

C:\WINDOWS>fsutil fsinfo drives

Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ Q:\

C:\WINDOWS>

You can "if test" those out if you need to do so.

[Following is all one line for batch file]
@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @if not
"%%a"=="Drives:" fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a

I prefer this method to using the "skip=1" in the "for"-loop
options since apparently 2003 has no problem and only
XP shows this.

I had seen no problem so didn't bother -- turns out I
tested the "XP" version mostly on 2003 and didn't see
that XP and 2003 were (slightly) different.

Go figure.

Heck, I don't REALLY even know why the "find" on a "slash"
works but have been assuming that it is just using the Nulls
to spit out separate lines.

I didn't "think this through" to get to this solution but was semi-randomly
trying FindStr, Find, type, copy looking for anything that would turn
the nulls into something else (spaces.)

 

[Herb Martin]

Nod, I thought of the same thing re: the letter-depth but figured it's so
nigh-on moot for the same reasons ...

That's why I did like the pipe to find "\".

Here's the current one that doesn't mess up with "Drives:"
on XP (I hadn't notice the error until Esra pointed that
out (I was testing under 2003 mostly and who would have
thought that XP and 2003 which both WORK basicly
would be different in a new way?)

[Following is all one line for a batch file]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @if not
"%%a"=="Drives:" fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a


I didn't use "For" option SKIP=1 because it would be different
for XP vs. 2003.

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive from
working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ... but,
seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and will
readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are'
band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch syntax:
that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.' Anyway, I came up with
this improvement on my original syntax, it too limits the number of
iterations resulting from the for loop to only those necessary (note
that it's a one-liner; well, sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Cool. I never did understand (or really isolate) your Unicode trick
from that big batch file -- the one to remove the NULLS.

I ended up using a pipe to find on XP -- after using more as the
next best thing but admitting that more will fail (or at least ask for
key to continue) if there are more drives than screen lines.)

This last isn't a giant deal as I keep my screen MUCH bigger than
the maximum (?) 26 drive letters but not everyone does all of the
time.

See "net use" and "If exist" in Windows Help and support. Also there
is a cmd prompt group that has some pretty sharp folks(cross posting
this)

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin

joshboski wrote:

I am currently trying to write a batch file that will delete a list
of
files from all of my network drives. The problem I am having is
getting the network drives. I am on a rather large network, and I
would like this to run on several different computers that may be
connected to different drives.

I have been meaning to ask advice or figure the following out myself
so I will just post my solution and describe where it has problems.

The following code WORKS on Vista, but not on 2003, nor on
XP if I recall the latter correctly.

Following is all one line (in a batch file):

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do
@for %%A in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%A


=======================
Ugly but it works on Vista like this:

A: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
F: - CD-ROM Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - CD-ROM Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
O: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
Q: - Remote/Network Drive
R: - CD-ROM Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive
Y: - Remote/Network Drive
Z: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Dean Wells \(MVP\)]

Sadly, that still doesn't work under Vista ... the one-liner I posted
earlier seems to work across the board ... or perhaps I missed
something? -->

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l

Nod, I thought of the same thing re: the letter-depth but figured
it's so nigh-on moot for the same reasons ...

That's why I did like the pipe to find "\".

Here's the current one that doesn't mess up with "Drives:"
on XP (I hadn't notice the error until Esra pointed that
out (I was testing under 2003 mostly and who would have
thought that XP and 2003 which both WORK basicly
would be different in a new way?)

[Following is all one line for a batch file]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @if not
"%%a"=="Drives:" fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a


I didn't use "For" option SKIP=1 because it would be different
for XP vs. 2003.

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l

It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive
from working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ...
but, seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and
will readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there
are' band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of
batch syntax: that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.'
Anyway, I came up with this improvement on my original syntax, it
too limits the number of iterations resulting from the for loop to
only those necessary (note that it's a one-liner; well, sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u
/c type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do
fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Cool. I never did understand (or really isolate) your Unicode trick
from that big batch file -- the one to remove the NULLS.

I ended up using a pipe to find on XP -- after using more as the
next best thing but admitting that more will fail (or at least ask
for
key to continue) if there are more drives than screen lines.)

This last isn't a giant deal as I keep my screen MUCH bigger than
the maximum (?) 26 drive letters but not everyone does all of the
time.



See "net use" and "If exist" in Windows Help and support. Also
there
is a cmd prompt group that has some pretty sharp folks(cross
posting
this)

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin

joshboski wrote:

I am currently trying to write a batch file that will delete a
list
of
files from all of my network drives. The problem I am having is
getting the network drives. I am on a rather large network, and
I
would like this to run on several different computers that may
be
connected to different drives.

I have been meaning to ask advice or figure the following out
myself
so I will just post my solution and describe where it has
problems.

The following code WORKS on Vista, but not on 2003, nor on
XP if I recall the latter correctly.

Following is all one line (in a batch file):

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do
@for %%A in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%A


=======================
Ugly but it works on Vista like this:

A: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
F: - CD-ROM Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - CD-ROM Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
O: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
Q: - Remote/Network Drive
R: - CD-ROM Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive
Y: - Remote/Network Drive
Z: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Herb Martin]

Sadly, that still doesn't work under Vista ... the one-liner I posted
earlier seems to work across the board ... or perhaps I missed
something? -->

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Sorry, I didn't repost my Vista version in that last messages but
had done so elsewhere this thread. It had been working all along.

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do @for %%A
in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%A

I have been using this for about a year on Vista.

No temp files.

I just use an OS check to decide which of the two to use,
as I prefer that to temp files and the (highly technical) issue
with more etc.

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l

Nod, I thought of the same thing re: the letter-depth but figured it's
so nigh-on moot for the same reasons ...

That's why I did like the pipe to find "\".

Here's the current one that doesn't mess up with "Drives:"
on XP (I hadn't notice the error until Esra pointed that
out (I was testing under 2003 mostly and who would have
thought that XP and 2003 which both WORK basicly
would be different in a new way?)

[Following is all one line for a batch file]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @if not
"%%a"=="Drives:" fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a


I didn't use "For" option SKIP=1 because it would be different
for XP vs. 2003.

--
Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
MSEtechnology
[[ Please respond to the Newsgroup only regarding posts ]]
R e m o v e t h e m a s k t o s e n d e m a i l



It's always strange to me just how much pleasure I seem to derive from
working in this (let's face it) old & crappy little shell ... but,
seemingly like the rest of you, I'm quite happy doing so and will
readily jump on the 'let's see how many alternatives there are'
band-wagon whilst striving for the apparent golden-egg of batch
syntax: that ever elusive 'let's make it a one-liner.' Anyway, I came
up with this improvement on my original syntax, it too limits the
number of iterations resulting from the for loop to only those
necessary (note that it's a one-liner; well, sorta) -

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil
fsinfo drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Cool. I never did understand (or really isolate) your Unicode trick
from that big batch file -- the one to remove the NULLS.

I ended up using a pipe to find on XP -- after using more as the
next best thing but admitting that more will fail (or at least ask for
key to continue) if there are more drives than screen lines.)

This last isn't a giant deal as I keep my screen MUCH bigger than
the maximum (?) 26 drive letters but not everyone does all of the
time.



See "net use" and "If exist" in Windows Help and support. Also there
is a cmd prompt group that has some pretty sharp folks(cross posting
this)

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin

joshboski wrote:

I am currently trying to write a batch file that will delete a list
of
files from all of my network drives. The problem I am having is
getting the network drives. I am on a rather large network, and I
would like this to run on several different computers that may be
connected to different drives.

I have been meaning to ask advice or figure the following out myself
so I will just post my solution and describe where it has problems.

The following code WORKS on Vista, but not on 2003, nor on
XP if I recall the latter correctly.

Following is all one line (in a batch file):

@for /f "tokens=1-26 delims=\ " %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do
@for %%A in (%%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) do @fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%A


=======================
Ugly but it works on Vista like this:

A: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
F: - CD-ROM Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - CD-ROM Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
O: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
Q: - Remote/Network Drive
R: - CD-ROM Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive
Y: - Remote/Network Drive
Z: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Harlan Grove]

The following works on 2003 and Vista but is really slow (at least
on 2003) when it encounters a disconnected network drive letter that *IS*
mapped:

ALL ONE LINE FOLLOWING:

for %%a in (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) do @if
exist %%a:\lpt1 @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a:

....

The following seems to work under XP. Also all one command line.

(for %d in (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) do ^
@fsutil fsinfo drivetype %d | find "No such " /v

This produces the following results, not including the lines of
dashes.

------
B: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
F: - Remote/Network Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - Remote/Network Drive
I: - Remote/Network Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
K: - Remote/Network Drive
L: - Remote/Network Drive
M: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
V: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive

 

[Herb Martin]

...

The following seems to work under XP. Also all one command line.

(for %d in (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) do ^
@fsutil fsinfo drivetype %d | find "No such " /v

My experience is that it is much slower to check invalid
drive letters than to just check those that (FSUtil says) exist,
but that doesn't seem to be the case with this command you
offer.

It works on (at least) XP, 2003, and Vista so I think yours is
the best I have seen so far, and I am sorry I didn't try going
right at all the drives to start with. <GRIN>

I guess it turns out that the "Fsutil fsinfo drives" is just a waste of
time and effort (programmer and computer).


Thanks

 

[Esra Sdrawkcab]

Nod, I thought of the same thing re: the letter-depth but figured it's so
nigh-on moot for the same reasons ...

That's why I did like the pipe to find "\".

Here's the current one that doesn't mess up with "Drives:"
on XP (I hadn't notice the error until Esra pointed that
out (I was testing under 2003 mostly and who would have
thought that XP and 2003 which both WORK basicly
would be different in a new way?)

[Following is all one line for a batch file]

@for /f %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find "\"') do @if not
"%%a"=="Drives:" fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%a


I didn't use "For" option SKIP=1 because it would be different
for XP vs. 2003.

Sure that skips the text "Drives:" but it doesn't pick up my floppy
drive letter

C:\WINDOWS>qdrvc
C:\ - Fixed Drive
D:\ - Fixed Drive
E:\ - Fixed Drive
Q:\ - CD-ROM Drive

C:\WINDOWS>fsutil fsinfo drives

Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ Q:\

C:\WINDOWS>

 

[Esra Sdrawkcab]

Sadly, that still doesn't work under Vista ... the one-liner I posted
earlier seems to work across the board ... or perhaps I missed
something? -->

fsutil fsinfo drives >"%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" && for /f %%d in ('cmd /u /c
type "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" ^| more +11 ^| findstr "[A-Z]"') do fsutil fsinfo
drivetype %%d: & del "%TEMP%\%~n0.$$$" 2>nul

Yup that works here (XP Pro). I guess we were hoping for a
shorter/tidier solution.

 

[Esra Sdrawkcab]

...

The following seems to work under XP. Also all one command line.

(for %d in (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) do ^
@fsutil fsinfo drivetype %d | find "No such " /v

This produces the following results, not including the lines of
dashes.

------
B: - Remote/Network Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
F: - Remote/Network Drive
G: - CD-ROM Drive
H: - Remote/Network Drive
I: - Remote/Network Drive
J: - Remote/Network Drive
K: - Remote/Network Drive
L: - Remote/Network Drive
M: - Remote/Network Drive
P: - Remote/Network Drive
S: - Remote/Network Drive
T: - Remote/Network Drive
U: - Remote/Network Drive
V: - Remote/Network Drive
W: - Remote/Network Drive
X: - Remote/Network Drive

Yes, Ok here.

C:\WINDOWS>(for %d in (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) do @
fsutil fsinfo drivetype %d: ) | find "No such " /v
A: - Removable Drive
C: - Fixed Drive
D: - Fixed Drive
E: - Fixed Drive
Q: - CD-ROM Drive

C:\WINDOWS>