Finding USB volumes on Win

[Richard Gaskin]

Richard Miller wrote:

 > On 3/22/2010 10:05 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> In January with the help of Phil, Peter, and others I got some great
 >> tips for identifying removable drives on OS X and Linux.  But I'm
 >> having difficulty figuring out how to do the same in Windows.
 >>
 >> I can find the registry entries to determine which devices are
 >> mounted, but they don't contain the info which will let me know
 >> which drive letter they're associated with.
...
 > This has been working for me:
 >
 >   repeat with i = number of lines of the volumes down to 1
 >           put line i of the volumes into x
 >           put getvolumesn(X) into z
 > end repeat
 >
 > function GetVolumeSN pDiskLetter
 >    local volumeSerialNumber
 >    -- Supports both "C", "C:" and "C:\" styles
 >    put char 1 of pDiskLetter & ":" into pDisk
 >    set the hideConsoleWindows to true
 >    put shell("dir " & pDisk) into tDirData
 >    get matchText(tDirData,"Volume Serial Number is
 > (.*)\n",volumeSerialNumber)
 >    if it is true then
 >      return volumeSerialNumber
 >    else
 >      return empty
 >    end if
 > end GetVolumeSN

Thank you, Richard, but I've been getting the volume IDs from the 
registry.  The challenge I have this morning is to find which volumes 
are removable.

Since I last wrote I discovered that the info at 
HKEY\Local_Machine\System\MountedDevices\ seems to have what I need.

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