Howto tell a drive is a CD/DVD & ROM/RW?

[Scribble]

Hello,

This is my first post here, I'm just getting into AutoIT and I love it!

My question for you: Is there a way using an autoit script to find out the drivetypes of all driveletters in a system and to even see if a drivetype:CDROM is a DVD or CD and wheter it has writing(burning) abilities (without a CD/DVD being inserted)?

Thanx in advance guys!

[blindwig]

Try using DriveGetType(), DriveGetFileSystem(), or DriveStatus() to find info about a drive based on it's letter.

Or for a more advanced info, interface with DISKPART (on windows XP).

see my post at the end of this thread for an example of that.

[Scribble]

Try using DriveGetType(), DriveGetFileSystem(), or DriveStatus() to find info about a drive based on it's letter.

Or for a more advanced info, interface with DISKPART (on windows XP).

see my post at the end of this thread for an example of that.

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Thanx, but this doesn't give me option to see if a drive is DVD or CD and whether it's a writer or a reader... and I need that especially to set the driveletters accordingly in a system with Diskpart. so R: = reader W: = writer

Anyone?

[hoppy]

Thanks for that beautifull piece of code Larry.

Gonna use it in my next unattended XP installation

$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\" & @computername & "\root\cimv2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive")
For $objItem in $colItems
    if StringInStr($objItem.Name, "rw") then 
        run ("install nero.exe")
        Exit
    EndIf
Next

[Scribble]

try beta + COM + WMI. If this interest's you perhaps I can dig up a ditty... it will most likely only work on win2k/xp

$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\" & @computername & "\root\cimv2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive")
For $objItem in $colItems
    MsgBox(4096,"","Device ID: " & $objItem.DeviceID)
    MsgBox(4096,"","Description: " & $objItem.Description)
    MsgBox(4096,"","Name: " & $objItem.Name)
Next

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Hi Larry,

It seems from Hoppy's adjustment this is what I would need!!!

But....the script doesn't find any cdrom drive in my system, so does nothing...

That's weird because there is a DVD writer on drive G:...

Can you tell me what I need to do to make it find that drive?

I already tried: Win32_DvdDrive but no such class exists...

Thanx again, you guys are really helpful to us newbies.