Comments on: PowerShell: Finding next available driveletter http://www.cupfighter.net/index.php/2009/06/powershell-finding-next-available-driveletter/ A blog by Schuberg Philis colleagues Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Hans http://www.cupfighter.net/index.php/2009/06/powershell-finding-next-available-driveletter/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Hans Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:02:02 +0000 http://www.cupfighter.net/?p=266#comment-37 Thanks Stephen. This is the result of a sloppy cut/paste action. I modified the post now using the correct cmdlet etc. Thanks Stephen.

This is the result of a sloppy cut/paste action. I modified the post now using the correct cmdlet etc.

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.cupfighter.net/index.php/2009/06/powershell-finding-next-available-driveletter/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Stephen Mills Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:50 +0000 http://www.cupfighter.net/?p=266#comment-36 Your script actually will include optical drives that don't currently have media inserted. Here's a variation that does work however. This includes the drive letters C-Z. [char[]]'CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' | ? { (Get-PSDrive $_ -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue') -eq $null } Your script actually will include optical drives that don’t currently have media inserted. Here’s a variation that does work however. This includes the drive letters C-Z.
[char[]]’CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’ | ? { (Get-PSDrive $_ -ErrorAction ‘SilentlyContinue’) -eq $null }

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