Optical drive type

[GEOSoft]

I have a need to break down the drive type further than DriveGetType will do it.

Does anyone know how to determine if a CDDrive is really a

CDR

CDRW

DVDR

DVDRW

It would also be good to be able to determine the media type (CD or DVD) but I can always get close enough to that by using DriveGetSize.

If you don't have it in AutoIt code but you do in vbscript then either post the vbscript or PM it to me (prefered). I'll take it from there.

I need this info for a script that will burn an image (ISO) file to CD or DVD. I can already do the burn, I just have to know what I'm burning to.

[Rick]

yes its possible, i did it for a program last year, i've got it somewhere, its just a case of reading the registing, finding what cd drives are installed, then doing some binary reading of each to see if its cd-r, cd-rw etc.

i'll see if i can seek it out

[GEOSoft]

yes its possible, i did it for a program last year, i've got it somewhere, its just a case of reading the registing, finding what cd drives are installed, then doing some binary reading of each to see if its cd-r, cd-rw etc.

i'll see if i can seek it out

Thanks Rick.

Does it also differentiate between CDRW and DVDRW?

[lAIN]

I know this post is really old, but did someone ever figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing.

Edited August 6, 2007 by lAIN

[MHz]

I know this post is really old, but did someone ever figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing.

Search for AutoIt Scriptomatic Tool and then have a look at Win32_CDROMDrive in the WMI Class.

[lAIN]

Thanks, that helps alot.

I don't really know anything about WMI, I just started looking at AutoIT but I assumed changing $strCapabilities = $objItem.Capabilities(0) to $objItem.Capabilities(1)... etc. would let me traverse the capabilities Array.

Uh, this might be the wrong place to ask but if someone could help:

For my DVD writer I only get capabilities 3 and 7 (link which is "Random Access" and "Supports Removable Media"

But going on another computer with a CD Writer, I get capabilities 3 and 4 which are "Random Access" and "Supports Writing".

What gives? Does "Support Removable Media" imply "Supports Writing" for DVDs or something?