Count Physical HardDrives

[Bertman]

Hello,

With Windows PE (bootable XP cd) i want to do a local disk check. The check work, but i want to do repartitioning (if that's the correct word) and format if needed.

I want to know how I can check if there are more then 1 physical drives in the machine. If there are more, I need to partition disk 1 as one partition and if there is one physical disk I need to repartion it in 2 pieces.

Can someone help me with this problem ?

The check is this:

$var = DriveGetDrive( "FIXED" )
If NOT @error Then
    If ($var[0] <> 2) Then
    ;there are more or less then 2 partitions
        MsgBox("","","Er zijn meer of minder dan 2 partities aanwezig.")
        
    Else
    ;there are 2 partitions
        MsgBox("","","Er zijn 2 partities aanwezig.")
    EndIf
Else
    MsgBox("","","Er zijn geen lokale schijven gevonden.")
EndIf

[Bertman]

Nobody has a sollution ?

[monoceres]

Nobody has a sollution ?

I'm not sure if this works because I'm at a shared computer but couldn't you check the serial of the drives returned by DriveGetDrive()? It should be equal for partitions on the same physical drive.

[weaponx]

Is this returning the count of partitions or count of physical drives?

$var = DriveGetDrive( "fixed" )
 If NOT @error Then
ConsoleWrite($var[0])
 EndIf

Edited May 6, 2008 by weaponx

[monoceres]

Is this returning the count of partitions or count of physical drives?

$var = DriveGetDrive( "fixed" )
  If NOT @error Then
 ConsoleWrite($var[0])
  EndIf

It's returning partitions.

[weaponx]

This should return physical disks.

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