Re: Detecting if unformatted drive K: exist?


You'll get answers pertinent to your question if you repost your query in
microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin, but here's something to work with.

If you simply change to the K drive in your command Win2K will generate a
different error message when the drive is present and not formatted than if
the drive doesn't exist. You might try issuing the command K: in your .cmd
or .bat file and piping the result to the Find command.


"Matt Adams" <mattad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:441823f8$0$21656$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assume the following situation:

I have a new, sometimes connected (external USB) hard disc with a new
partition K:
on it. BUT this partition is currently NOT formatted (e.g. with NTFS).

How do I detect from command line (program) if
this hard disc resp. partition is currently connected or not ?

Notice: If the partition would be formatted the
solution is simple:

if exist "K:\" Echo K: is existing

But with an unformatted but existing partition the command above does NOT
work.

So again: Is there a detection command line program
which gives me a reliable "yes" (errorlevel=1) or no
on this question?

Maybe I need one of these ResourceKit programs from MS or from other
software sources

Matt




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