Discover CDRW/DVD drive in batch

[TheBee]

Does anyone have, or know a little tool that can

be used in a batch file to detect if a drive is

a DVD-ROM or a CD-Writer?

If that is possible, I can automaticaly install

nero if a CDRW is found and install PowerDVD

if a DVD drive is found.

Thnzzz

The Bee

[sambrus]

No, CDROM is just an environment variable you created with IF EXIST, it can be named anything really.

You could have it like this if you wanted to: IF EXIST D:\CDPath.txt set SOMEOTHERNAME=D:

and the environment variable pointing to where it located the file "CDpath.txt" will be called %SOMEOTHERNAME% 

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[big_gie]

try http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;Q311272devcon, a tool from microsoft. Its a command line tool equivalent to the device manager.

You could try to found a string like "rw" like this:

devcon find *rw*

On my system it returns me:

E:\Mes Documents>devcon find *rw*
IDE\CDROMMATs***A_CDRW/DVD_UJDA740_______________1.03____\5&3367BC97&0&0.0.0: MATs***A CDRW/DVD UJDA740
1 matching device(s) found.

E:\Mes Documents>

[gosh]

You could probably query setupapi.log, or query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Enum\0 or 1 for the sring. You could also look in the registry to see if it has a recording tab.

-gosh

[ovilla2001]

Sirs,

The link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;Q305184 could be usefull.

You will need a DDK compiler to change the code but it is pretty easy!

The DEVCON is name dependant and I already found some units that a couldn´t identify. The ENUMCD worked fine for each DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, COMBO or DVD-RW that I already tested.

Best Regards

O. Villa