Powershell Get all Optical Drive Letters

Question

I am trying to get all drive letters of a Windows system with Powershell, but I cannot figure it out. Any Ideas?

I have tried to use Get-Volume, but it has no parameter for -ByDriveType or -ByType or -Type or anything.

This may be useful: http://superuser.com/questions/787613/viewing-all-accessible-drives-in-powershell — xmojmr, Oct 27 '16 at 08:01

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '16 at 08:15

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If you only want the optical drives (as mentioned in your title), use this:

Get-CimInstance Win32_LogicalDisk | ?{ $_.DriveType -eq 5} | select DeviceID

answered Oct 27 '16 at 08:15

David Brabant

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '16 at 08:06

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Try this instead:

gdr -PSProvider 'FileSystem'

gdr is an alias for Get-PSDrive

edited Oct 27 '16 at 08:06

Kyll

answered Oct 27 '16 at 08:05

Idit Bnaya

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This will return more than just optical drives. – Joel McBeth Feb 10 '18 at 18:17

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