Drive letter from volume name

[jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)]

You could enumerate any attached drives and look for a predetermined file
name to identify your data drive. It's not exactly elegant but it would
work.

Jim

On 12 March 2010 15:49, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com> wrote:

> Well, it's not running from a drive yet (I'm doing something weird which
> I'll talk about later). I need the command to go out and find the drive to
> use.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Butturini, Russell <
> Russell.Butturini at healthways.com> wrote:
>
> >  Have you tried using the %CD% environment variable? I think it will
> > populate with the directory you?re running your script from.  Also, are you
> > doing this in VBScript or batch scripting?
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> > pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Crenshaw
> > *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 12:16 AM
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> > *Subject:* [Pauldotcom] Drive letter from volume name
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm writing a u3 script of sorts. I need to be able to know where to
> > copy data to, but the drive letter will change depending on the box I stick
> > it in. I want to do it all from one command line.Ive found a way as long as
> > I know my drive's volume name (MyThumb ).  This seems to work:
> >
> >
> > WMIC logicaldisk list brief |findstr MyThumb > delme.txt && FOR /F
> > "tokens=1*" %i IN ('type delme.txt') DO set ufddrive = %i\
> >
> > But is there a cleaner way?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
> >
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