detecting flash/solid state media

[TravisC]

hi, i need to know if there is any way to detect if a drive is flash media or not. I know there is a removable or fixed thing but i assume that it will see external hard drives as removable also. i just need to be able to distinguish between hdds and solid state/flash drives

thanks for any help

[TravisC]

does nobody know the answer to this? and if autoit can't do it, what similar scripting languages can?

[Legacy99]

Try searching for USB drive (there are lots of examples of it), that's what I did to create a detection and block script.

PS, welcome to the forums

Edited March 10, 2008 by Legacy99

[spudw2k]

Try the DriveGetDrive() and DriveGetType() Functions.

Alternatively, if you are familiar with WMI, you can use that to query drive info. *I Recommend*

$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\localhost\root\cimv2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive Where (InterfaceType like " & chr(34) & "%USB%" & chr(34) & ")")
For $objItem in $colItems
    msgbox(0,$objItem.Caption,$objItem.MediaType)
Next

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a...132(VS.85).aspx

Edited March 10, 2008 by spudw2k