Disk capacity

[Tom Del Rosso]

Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils (without the
intense operation of listing all directories and adding the total used to
the free space)?

Thanks.

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[foxidrive]

On 17/07/2011 10:48, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils (without the
> intense operation of listing all directories and adding the total used to
> the free space)?
>
> Thanks.
>

It depends on the OS being used.

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[Tom Del Rosso]

From XP forward. The 2k utilities are a little different, but I don't
really deal with 2k much any more so it's best to forget it. If it can't be
done natively, then utilities from either the resource kit or support tools
or sysinternals are ok.

[foxidrive]

On 17/07/2011 12:00, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> foxidrive wrote:
>> On 17/07/2011 10:48, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>>> Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils (without
>>> the intense operation of listing all directories and adding the
>>> total used to the free space)?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> It depends on the OS being used.
>
> From XP forward. The 2k utilities are a little different, but I don't
> really deal with 2k much any more so it's best to forget it. If it can't be
> done natively, then utilities from either the resource kit or support tools
> or sysinternals are ok.

I'm just giving a pointer here - try this. Wmic is not available on XP Home AFAIK.

@echo off
Wmic path Win32_DiskDrive get /value >file.txt

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[foxidrive]

And here is a sample using diskpart. It needs admin access or maybe backup permissions I think.

@echo off
del script.txt 2>nul
>>script.txt echo select disk 0
>>script.txt echo detail disk
>>script.txt echo exit
diskpart /s script.txt >details.txt
del script.txt 2>nul

What is the purpose for finding the drive size? Is it merely to list all drives and capacities in the machine?

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[Tom Del Rosso]

foxidrive wrote:
>
> And here is a sample using diskpart. It needs admin access or maybe
> backup permissions I think.
>
> @echo off
> del script.txt 2>nul
> > > script.txt echo select disk 0
> > > script.txt echo detail disk
> > > script.txt echo exit
> diskpart /s script.txt >details.txt
> del script.txt 2>nul

That's a good one. Thanks.

> What is the purpose for finding the drive size? Is it merely to list
> all drives and capacities in the machine?

No, just to report the size of a backup drive in the emails that my backup
script sends to me.

[Timo Salmi]

On 17.07.2011 03:48 Tom Del Rosso <td...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:
> Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils (without the
> intense operation of listing all directories and adding the total used to
> the free space)?

170} How do I get the total size of a volume, not just the available
space?
http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd170.htm

All the best, Timo

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[Todd Vargo]

"Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:ivtp8r$dmg$1...@dont-email.me...

>
> foxidrive wrote:
>>
>> And here is a sample using diskpart. It needs admin access or maybe
>> backup permissions I think.
>>
>> @echo off
>> del script.txt 2>nul
>> > > script.txt echo select disk 0
>> > > script.txt echo detail disk
>> > > script.txt echo exit
>> diskpart /s script.txt >details.txt
>> del script.txt 2>nul
>
> That's a good one. Thanks.

You may like the output from this too.

@echo off
echo list volume >script.txt
echo exit >>script.txt
diskpart /s script.txt >drvlist.txt
del script.txt

[Robert Roland]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:48:41 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
<td...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:

>Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils

If you consider VBscript native, you can do this:

set fso = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set drive = fso.GetDrive("C:")
wscript.echo "Size: " & drive.TotalSize/(1024^4) & " TB"

There are a few ways to integrate vbscripts into batch. Which one is
best depends on the specific task and your requirements.
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[ten.n...@virgin.net]

Although it was touched on by foxidrive earlier, here's how I'd do it with
WMIC.

::----- START -----
WMIC LogicalDisk WHERE "DriveType>='2' OR DriveType<='6'" GET
DeviceID,Size
::------ END ------

[Dr J R Stockton]

In alt.msdos.batch.nt message <ivtbha$d7p$1...@dont-email.me>, Sat, 16 Jul
2011 20:48:41, Tom Del Rosso <td...@verizon.net.invalid> posted:

>Can you get the total capacity of a disk using native utils (without the
>intense operation of listing all directories and adding the total used to
>the free space)?

It will not change very often. So perhaps the simplest way is to use a
utility called Windows, My Computer, select drive, Properties (or
something like that) to find the capacity, and to write the number that
it shows in a small file in the root or other directory that your code
can read. The file can also contain other useful information which the
OS is unlikely to know, such as the colour of a thumb drive. Give the
file a suitable name, such as OWNED-BY, put your name in it, and you
stand a better chance of recovering it if it should become lost.

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[Tom Del Rosso]

ten.n...@virgin.net wrote:
> Although it was touched on by foxidrive earlier, here's how I'd do it
> with WMIC.
>
> > :----- START -----
> WMIC LogicalDisk WHERE "DriveType>='2' OR DriveType<='6'" GET
> DeviceID,Size
> > :------ END ------

That's very nicely formatted.