How to determine what drive a USB would be on

[BatchFileCommand]

How would you determine what drive a USB would be on? Because the drive can vary depending on the computer.

[macdad-]

you want to do this in batch?

[BatchFileCommand]

Yes. If it's not possible that's understandable.

[macdad-]

i think it could be possible...give me a second...i'll whip up a script.

[macdad-]

ok here's the script:

just put the batch file in the USB drive and it will get the Drive letter of the USB drive:

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@echo off
title GetDrive Letter
cd > temp.tmp
set /p return=<temp.tmp
set parentdrive=%return:~0,1%
del temp.tmp
echo The Drive letter of this USB Drive is: %parentdrive%
pause
Hope this Helps
,Nick(macdad-)

[devcom]

i dont know if you have wmic but here it is

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C:\Users\_CORE>wmic volume get DriveType,Name
DriveType  Name
3          C:\
3          F:\
3          D:\
3          E:\
5          G:\
2          H:\
i think that DriveType 2 is USB and 3 is SCSI 

[devcom]

ok here's the script:

just put the batch file in the USB drive and it will get the Drive letter of the USB drive:

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@echo off
title GetDrive Letter
cd > temp.tmp
set /p return=<temp.tmp
set parentdrive=%return:~0,1%
del temp.tmp
echo The Drive letter of this USB Drive is: %parentdrive%
pause
Hope this Helps
,Nick(macdad-)

why not use for loop ? 

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for /f %%a in ('echo %cd%') do set var=%%a
set var=%var:~0,3%
echo %var%

[macdad-]

should of thought of that, either will do.

[BatchFileCommand]

Of course  . Maybe I should think these things through.