From: Alexander Suhovey [mailto:
[email protected]]
Posted At: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:18 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
Conversation: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
Subject: Re: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael [mailto:
[email protected]]
Posted At: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:21 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
Conversation: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
Subject: Re: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
Hello Alexander
thanks for your answer. That sounds a good solution. I would appreciate
very
much if you send me an example
ciao
MIChael
Alexander Suhovey said:
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael [mailto:
[email protected]]
Posted At: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:13 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
Conversation: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
Subject: How to assign a drive letter to a volume by name (not
driveumber)?
Hello
I know how to assign a drive letter to a volume with diskpart.
But diskpart has the disadvantage that you have to name the
volume
by
its
volumenumber. And the volumenumber may change so the script gives
the wrong
drive the letter.
Is there a way or scripting tool to assign a drive (volume) a drive
letter
by selecting the name of the drive?
Thank you very much for help!
MIchael
Michael,
By "name of the drive", do you mean volume label? If yes, you can first
run diskpart /s script.txt with "list volume" command inside script.txt
and parse output of the command to find volume number based on known
volume label. There's two caveats however. Note however that diskpart
shows only first 11 characters of volume label.
If you need a batch example, let me know.
Here we go:
======start batch script=======
@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
:: Full path to diskpart.exe. Defaults are:
:: Windows 2000: "C:\Program Files\Resource Kit\diskpart.exe"
:: 2003/XP: "C:\windows\system32\diskpart.exe"
set dp=c:\windows\system32\diskpart.exe
:: Volume label
set label=MY_VOLUME_LABEL
:: Temporary command file for diskpart.exe
set dps="%TEMP%\dp.txt"
echo list volume>%dps%
echo exit>>%dps%
set label_short=%LABEL:~0,11%
if exist %dp% (
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('%dp% /s %dps%') do (
set string=%%i
if not "!string:%label_short%=!"=="!string!" (
set volnum=!string:~9,3!
set volnum=!volnum: =!
)
)
if not "!volnum!"=="" (
echo Volume Label: %label%
echo Volume Number: !volnum!
) else (
echo Cannot find volume with label %label%
)
) else (
echo Cannot find %dp%&goto :EOF
)
=======end batch script========
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