{"id":2956,"date":"2013-08-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/29\/powertip-list-physical-drives-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-list-physical-drives-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-list-physical-drives-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: List Physical Drives with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to list physical drives.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to get a list of physical drives?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use Get-WMIObject<\/strong>, query win32_logicaldisk<\/strong>, and filter with the DriveType<\/strong> property:<\/p>\n

GET-WMIOBJECT –query “SELECT * from win32_logicaldisk where DriveType = ‘3’”<\/p>\n

To check the drives on a remote computer, add the –ComputerName<\/strong> parameter.
For example, to list all physical drives and their free space on a machine called “ContosoWS1”:<\/p>\n

GET-WMIOBJECT –query “SELECT * from win32_logicaldisk where DriveType = ‘3’”
–computername “ContosoWS1”<\/p>\n

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list physical drives.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to get a list of physical drives?  Use Get-WMIObject, query win32_logicaldisk, and filter with the DriveType property: GET-WMIOBJECT –query “SELECT * from win32_logicaldisk where DriveType = ‘3’” To check the drives on a remote computer, add the –ComputerName parameter. For example, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list physical drives.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to get a list of physical drives?  Use Get-WMIObject, query win32_logicaldisk, and filter with the DriveType property: GET-WMIOBJECT –query “SELECT * from win32_logicaldisk where DriveType = ‘3’” To check the drives on a remote computer, add the –ComputerName parameter. For example, […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}