{"id":4601,"date":"2012-11-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/11\/25\/powertip-find-the-status-of-disk-drives-in-windows-8-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-the-status-of-disk-drives-in-windows-8-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-the-status-of-disk-drives-in-windows-8-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find the Status of Disk Drives in Windows 8 with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to find the status of disk drives on Windows&nbsp;8.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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;<\/strong>How can I check on the status of disk drives on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Disk<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-Disk<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Number Friendly Name &nbsp;Operational Status &nbsp;Total Size Partition Style<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Online&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 149.05 GB MBR<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SAMSUNG HN-M101MBB USB Device&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Offline&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 931.51 GB MBR<\/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:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to find the status of disk drives on Windows&nbsp;8. &nbsp;How can I check on the status of disk drives on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here. PS C:\\&gt; Get-Disk Number Friendly Name &nbsp;Operational Status &nbsp;Total Size Partition Style &#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&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":[362,356,3,367,45],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to find the status of disk drives on Windows&nbsp;8. &nbsp;How can I check on the status of disk drives on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here. PS C:\\&gt; Get-Disk Number Friendly Name &nbsp;Operational Status &nbsp;Total Size Partition Style &#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","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=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/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=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}