I am looking for a built-in Windows XP/Server 2003 utility that can pull drive information, similar to what the Disk Management mmc displays, including capacity and free space. Any ideas?
Diskpart doesn't seem to report free space and Disk Management doesn't seem to have an "export to text" feature. Any ideas?
Please note that I am not looking for any third-party tool recommendations. If it isn't a Windows built-in, I'll likely have to script it instead.
For Windows XP and Server 2003, use the fsutil command
C:\Documents and Settings\administrator>fsutil volume diskfree C:
Total # of free bytes : 14056869888
Total # of bytes : 21459722240
Total # of avail free bytes : 14056869888
DISKPART will show you this information at the volume level (for Windows Vista only)
DISKPART> detail volume
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 0 Online 75 GB 0 B
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Dismounted : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Volume Capacity : 74 GB
Volume Free Space : 8 GB
Every bit of information you could want regarding your logical disks:
On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
Dim objWMIService
Dim propValue
Dim objItem
Dim SWBemlocator
Dim UserName
Dim Password
Dim colItems
strComputer = "."
UserName = ""
Password = ""
Set SWBemlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = SWBemlocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\CIMV2",UserName,Password)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
WScript.Echo "Access: " & objItem.Access
WScript.Echo "Availability: " & objItem.Availability
WScript.Echo "BlockSize: " & objItem.BlockSize
WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
WScript.Echo "Compressed: " & objItem.Compressed
WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode
WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig
WScript.Echo "CreationClassName: " & objItem.CreationClassName
WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
WScript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID
WScript.Echo "DriveType: " & objItem.DriveType
WScript.Echo "ErrorCleared: " & objItem.ErrorCleared
WScript.Echo "ErrorDescription: " & objItem.ErrorDescription
WScript.Echo "ErrorMethodology: " & objItem.ErrorMethodology
WScript.Echo "FileSystem: " & objItem.FileSystem
WScript.Echo "FreeSpace: " & objItem.FreeSpace
WScript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate
WScript.Echo "LastErrorCode: " & objItem.LastErrorCode
WScript.Echo "MaximumComponentLength: " & objItem.MaximumComponentLength
WScript.Echo "MediaType: " & objItem.MediaType
WScript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
WScript.Echo "NumberOfBlocks: " & objItem.NumberOfBlocks
WScript.Echo "PNPDeviceID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID
for each propValue in objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities
WScript.Echo "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & propValue
next
WScript.Echo "PowerManagementSupported: " & objItem.PowerManagementSupported
WScript.Echo "ProviderName: " & objItem.ProviderName
WScript.Echo "Purpose: " & objItem.Purpose
WScript.Echo "QuotasDisabled: " & objItem.QuotasDisabled
WScript.Echo "QuotasIncomplete: " & objItem.QuotasIncomplete
WScript.Echo "QuotasRebuilding: " & objItem.QuotasRebuilding
WScript.Echo "Size: " & objItem.Size
WScript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status
WScript.Echo "StatusInfo: " & objItem.StatusInfo
WScript.Echo "SupportsDiskQuotas: " & objItem.SupportsDiskQuotas
WScript.Echo "SupportsFileBasedCompression: " & objItem.SupportsFileBasedCompression
WScript.Echo "SystemCreationClassName: " & objItem.SystemCreationClassName
WScript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName
WScript.Echo "VolumeDirty: " & objItem.VolumeDirty
WScript.Echo "VolumeName: " & objItem.VolumeName
WScript.Echo "VolumeSerialNumber: " & objItem.VolumeSerialNumber
Next
I'm not aware of any built-in option, I would just get all the info from WMI using VBScript or PowerShell.
the technology you are looking for is WMI. For an overview on how to script for it see: WMI scripting primer.
WMI is the best way to handle remote systems managment. WMI can also be used with Powershell, but you are likley to see (for now) most examples in vbscript. Once you understand the concepts you can use the scriptomatic (vbscript) (powershell) to build your scripts
Here's a very rough vbscript that I hacked together a while back.
This is actually part of an HTA that gives disk info in HTML. I stripped out all of the HTML for you and put in some tabs to make things line up a little.
Const BYTES_TO_GB = 1073741824
strComputer = "computer"
Wscript.Echo "Disk Usage - " & strComputer & vbCrLf
Wscript.Echo "Volume" & vbTab & vbTab & "Size" & vbTab & _
"Free" & vbTab & "% Free" & vbCrLf
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts://" & strComputer)
Set colLogicalDisk = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"SELECT DeviceID,VolumeName,Size,FreeSpace FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DriveType=3")
For Each objLogicalDisk In colLogicalDisk
intTotalSize = objLogicalDisk.Size / BYTES_TO_GB
intFreeSpace = objLogicalDisk.FreeSpace / BYTES_TO_GB
Wscript.Echo objLogicalDisk.VolumeName & " (" & objLogicalDisk.DeviceID & ")" & _
vbTab & FormatNumber(intTotalSize,0) & " GB" & _
vbTab & FormatNumber(intFreeSpace,0) & " GB" & _
vbTab & FormatNumber(intFreeSpace/intTotalSize*100,0) & " %"
Next
Obviously, you'll need to fill in a value for strComputer. You can also adjust the constant if you like GiB instead of GB.
Hope this helps.
