Question: I need to determine if Windows thinks that my SATA hard drives are “removable” or not. ?The problem is, its on a Hyper-V system, and I don’t have access to the Disk Management GUI application. ?diskpart does not have this information, and I’m not sure where to turn now. ?How can I determine this via command line tools, or through PowerShell?
Answer: This is very easy in PowerShell using the .NET Framework, I’ve just tested it on an external drive 🙂
PS C:>$drive = New-Object system.io.driveinfo(“F:”)PS C:>$drive.DriveTypeRemovable
You can also use WMI:
C:>wmicwmic:rootcli>logicaldisk get caption,drivetypeCaption ?DriveTypeC: ?3D: ?5E: ?5F: ?2
Where drive types are:
0 – Unknown 1 – No Root Directory 2 – Removable Disk 3 – Local Disk 4 – Network Drive 5 – Compact Disk 6 – RAM Disk