Re: use a drives guid instead of its letter - where is the drive root ?

On 5/1/2024 7:03 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Using XPsp3 :
> 
> I have an USB drive, which I want to refer to by its guid - so that if its
> drive letter changes (because of other USB drives) I can still dependently
> talk to it (from within a script).
> 
> The thing is, when I use the result of "mountvol.exe" I can access the
> contents of any folder on the drive, but not the contents of its root.
> 
> Question: what do I have to write/do to access its root (do a "dir" on it) ?
> 
> 
> Reference:
> 
> https://superuser.com/questions/465730/access-to-a-disk-drive-using-volume-id-instead-of-a-drive-letter-in-windows
> 
> In the above the "start \\?\Volume{guid}\" method to open the drive doesn't
> work for me. However, "start \\?\Volume{guid}\foldername" does.
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> 

This is what I use on Win 10 where xxxxx is the assigned name:

FOR /f %%D IN ('WMIC VOLUME GET DRIVELETTER^, LABEL ^| FIND "xxxxx"') DO 
SET "_HD=%%D"