Good Method to get CDROM-Drive

[AlBundy33]

Here - I found a good way, to get CDROM where XP-CD is inserted:

FOR /F "skip=3 tokens=3" %I IN ('REG QUERY"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup" /v SourcePath') DO SET CDROM=%I

In Batchfiles use

FOR /F "skip=3 tokens=3" %%I IN ('REG QUERY"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup" /v SourcePath') DO SET CDROM=%%I

Greetings

Al

[Alanoll]

umm....

Good job!

but not to be rude or anything, but you have to be like the 3 person to post this in a week

Now I'm just gonna explain why I believe the IF EXIST checking for a file is better.

1. It can be expanded to multiple CDs.

2. If you are creating a MultiBoot CD, then the SourcePath then becomes something obscene And most people put their Unattend stuff in the root and not buried in folders.

3. EVERY XP CD has the Win51 file.

4. It only fails SOMETIMES with removable storage drives like ZIP drives.

The SourcePath method locks you to a drive, a SINGLE drive. And like above, it gets alittle nasty when doing MultiBoot CDs.