What is my cdrw drive.au3

[Rick]

Thought I'd share this script as it may come in useful for others.

Ever wanted to know the Drive letter of the CD-RW drive as used by the xp cd burning process??

Well this does it, works with Win95 upwards, feel free to edit it as you wish.

Rick

ReEdited 27/6/6 to seek out the cdrw differently.

What_is_my_cdrw_drive2.au3

Edited June 28, 2006 by Rick

[stev379]

Thought I'd share this script as it may come in useful for others.

Ever wanted to know the Drive letter of the CD-RW drive?

Well this does it, works with Win95 upwards, feel free to edit it as you wish.

Rick

Cool script. AutoIT already has a "DriveGetDrive()" function built in that can streamline the process.

$drv = DriveGetDrive( "CDROM" )

If NOT @error Then
    For $i = 1 to $drv[0]
        MsgBox(0,"CD Drive", "CD drive is: " & $drv[$i])
    Next
EndIf

[evilertoaster]

Cool script. AutoIT already has a "DriveGetDrive()" function built in that can streamline the process.

$drv = DriveGetDrive( "CDROM" )

If NOT @error Then
    For $i = 1 to $drv[0]
        MsgBox(0,"CD Drive", "CD drive is: " & $drv[$i])
    Next
EndIf

Differnece is CD-Rom to CD-RW in this case....

[Richard Robertson]

You should redo it to return an array of burner drives.

[Rick]

If you want me to add an array of burner drives then i'll do it, altho my main purpose was just to establish the drive letter of the main cd-rw drive as used by the xp cd burning process.

Let me know, if ya want it

Edited June 27, 2006 by Rick

[Xenobiologist]

HI,

nice, but my Combo-drive has the burner on d: and your script shows f:. :">

I'll have to look at it.

Thanks 4 sharing!

So long,

Mega

[PartyPooper]

Nice script that works quickly but it reports my Virtual Drive as a CDRW on F:, not my Combo-drive on E:.

[Rick]

Odd, as the reference i seek in the script is the DriveIndex stored for the xp cd burning capabilty at:

RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning", "DriveIndex") , i then do a DriveGetDrive( "All" ) , DriveIndex being the drive

let me know if you suss it

Edited June 26, 2006 by Rick

[PartyPooper]

Not sure if it'll help you identify a better way to detect the CDRW, but here is my registry settings for the CD Burning tree:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning]
"CD Recorder Drive"="\\\\?\\Volume{ad0c7710-ecd7-11da-9ff4-806d6172696f}\\"
"DriveIndex"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Current Media]
"TotalBytes"=hex:00,78,6c,7a,00,00,00,00
"FreeBytes"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"Media Type"=dword:00000002
"UDF"=dword:00000001
"Disc Label"="MY DVD"
"Set"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives\Volume{46ca700a-ecbb-11da-908e-00508dd19761}]
"Drive Type"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives\Volume{ad0c7710-ecd7-11da-9ff4-806d6172696f}]
"Drive Type"=dword:00000002
"CurrentCDWriteSpeed"=dword:ffffffff
"MaxCDWriteSpeed"=dword:0000007c

[Rick]

ok, I've found another way to find CD-RW drive, once i've created it i'll post it,

tho its a shame DriveGetDrive( "All" ) is misleading

[Rick]

Ok, heres goes... I've edited my original Script to look at "Mounted" devices instead of using DriveGetDrive("All").

Can you guys test it for me ta Rick

[Xenobiologist]

Hi Rick,

works as designed!

So long,

Mega

[Rick]

Yay! Thanks th.meger

[PartyPooper]

Works as expected for me too.

I take it that it'll just pick the first drive if you happen to have two CDRWs or perhaps a DVDRW and CDRW?

[Rick]

Works as expected for me too.

I take it that it'll just pick the first drive if you happen to have two CDRWs or perhaps a DVDRW and CDRW?

I thought i'd already answered that further up ^^^^^^^^

[PartyPooper]

Ahh I see, by 'main' you meant first. Cool thanks.

[Gyppie]

Hi!

I'm new to autoit. Could someone give me an example of writing the value of the cdrw drive letter to a file insted of a msgbox? I have tried on my own with out any luck.

Gyppie

[Xenobiologist]

Hi!

I'm new to autoit. Could someone give me an example of writing the value of the cdrw drive letter to a file insted of a msgbox? I have tried on my own with out any luck.

Gyppie

Post the question in support please.

[rajeshontheweb]

good job, there. i was actually working on the information retrieved from cd burning registry key to get the drive information.

and got just what i was about to do. this was further to someone's request here. i used to have a utlitity (closed source) to detect all capabiliiltes of a given optical drive and i intend to build one such soon, considering that IMAPI2 has already been ported to autoit ... (i had quit half way because i didnt have enough time to concentrate on studying imapi2 interface..

your code is good. thanks man.it will come handy.

[rajeshontheweb]

in line with my earlier note , i had been working on retrieveing info from guid , and found the dll call in msdn and as usual, people had already ported it into autoit. so , saved lottts of time (coz i am very bad at dllcalls and errors are unpredictable so need to spend too much time to get it working!)

here's what u can do , for getting the drive information.

This version might seem a little longer but 1) get last error is avoidable, its very rare that the registry call would be needed, so if the code needs to be small use second version

_GetCDDrive.au3

_GetCDDrive._Full.au3