I am new to powershell.

I am finding it very difficult to get the name of  driver letter and drive name of the USB connected.

What I essentially want to do is I have named my USB drive as "BOOTME" I just want to query by name and get the driver letter.  get-psdrive |format-list  using this command I can see my USB drive of description name "BOOTME", don't know how to get the driver letter of this drive. ex: d:\ or e:\ Is there a simpler way we can do this. I really appreciate your help.

Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From Win32_LogicalDisk" | ? { $_.driveType -eq 2 } | select volumename,deviceid

Hi,

Give this a shot:

Get-PSDrive |
    Where { $_.Description -eq 'BOOTME' } |
        Select Root

$letter = get-psdrive | ?{$_.Description -eq 'BOOTME'} | %{$_.name}

• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator 8 hours 10 minutes ago

$letter = get-psdrive | ?{$_.Description -eq 'BOOTME'} | %{$_.name}

• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator 8 hours 5 minutes ago

$letter = get-psdrive | ?{$_.Description -eq 'BOOTME'} | %{$_.name}

• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:19 AM

This alternative is better in case there is more than one drive with the BOOTME tag.  It returns the first drive letter in that case.

In case there is no drive with a BOOTME tag, it returns an empty string.

$letter = (@(get-psdrive | ?{$_.Description -eq 'BOOTME'}).name + '')[0]