{"id":2965,"date":"2013-08-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/27\/powertip-show-attached-usb-drives-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-show-attached-usb-drives-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-show-attached-usb-drives-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Show attached USB Drives with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to show attached USB drives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Is there an easy way with Windows PowerShell to show all drives that are connected via USB?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use <strong>Get-WMIObject<\/strong> and query <strong>win32_diskdrive<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">GET-WMIOBJECT win32_diskdrive | Where { $_.InterfaceType &ndash;eq &lsquo;USB&rsquo; }<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Or&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Write this as a query and pass it directly to WMI:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">GET-WMIOBJECT &ndash;query &ldquo;SELECT * from win32_diskdrive where InterfaceType = &lsquo;USB&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show attached USB drives. &nbsp;Is there an easy way with Windows PowerShell to show all drives that are connected via USB? Use Get-WMIObject and query win32_diskdrive: GET-WMIOBJECT win32_diskdrive | Where { $_.InterfaceType &ndash;eq &lsquo;USB&rsquo; } Or&#8230; Write this as a query and pass it directly to WMI: GET-WMIOBJECT &ndash;query &ldquo;SELECT [&hellip;]<\/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-2965","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":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show attached USB drives. &nbsp;Is there an easy way with Windows PowerShell to show all drives that are connected via USB? Use Get-WMIObject and query win32_diskdrive: GET-WMIOBJECT win32_diskdrive | Where { $_.InterfaceType &ndash;eq &lsquo;USB&rsquo; } Or&#8230; Write this as a query and pass it directly to WMI: GET-WMIOBJECT &ndash;query &ldquo;SELECT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/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=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}