My question is how can I change to the drive letter of my usb drive when I do not know the drive letter it is ASSIGNED to?

Here is an example...
f:
net USE Z: \\nts29\nofdata3\national /user:******
z:
cd lenovo\t61\internal\win732
xcopy *.* d:\*.*
f:
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
PAUSE
echo Press any key to continue
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:


When booting off a windows PE boot usb drive, it defaults to open the x drive. I want to change to my usb drive (like f: in the example) without knowing the drive letter. Can I use the usb drive label? That will at least be consistent. Any other ideas are welcome.

Thanks,
KeithLet me clarify this a bit... I realize I need to change to my usb drive to run this batch file, but I do not want to have to change the USB drive letter in this batch file everytime I run it. Say one time I boot off my Windows PE usb drive and it assignes my usb drive as e:. I do not want to have to edit this batch file and change the f: to e:. I want this batch file to select the usb drive automatically. Does this make sense? If I am not explaining this very well, sorry.

Like this...

usbdrive:
net use z: \\nts29\nofdata3\national /user:******
z:
cd lenovo\t61\internal\win732
xcopy *.* d:\*.*
usbdrive:
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
PAUSE
echo Press any key to continue
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:This may work, however if you have more than one removable drive on the system (not counting the USB drive, this will probably fail. You might try Windows Script.

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart ^| find /i "removeable"') do (
echo Removable drive is %%i:
)


Thank you very much for the reply. Keep in mind, there should be an OPTION of "EXTREME" newbie when joining this site.

I tried this...

net use z: \\nts29\nofdata3\national /user:KII\kvogler
z:
cd lenovo\t61\internal\win732
xcopy *.* d:\*.*
@echo off
for /f "tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart ^| find /i "removeable"') do (
echo Removable drive is %%i:
)
i:
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
PAUSE
echo Press any key to continue
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:

It returns an error that says "The system cannot find the drive specified." and "The system cannot find the path specified."

I did do a diskpart /list volume to make sure that is the only "removable drive" available and it is...

volume 0 E dvd drive
volume 1 C partition
volume 2 D partition
volume 3 F Removable

Am I typing the syntax incorrectly? If not, i'll try the scripting forums. Thanks againCode: [Select]net use z: \\nts29\nofdata3\national /user:KII\kvogler
z:
cd lenovo\t61\internal\win732
xcopy *.* d:\*.*
@echo off
for /f "tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart ^| find /i "removeable"') do (
echo Removable drive is %%i:
set usbdrive=%%i:
)
i:
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
PAUSE
echo Press any key to continue
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:

I added a variable (usbdrive) that based on your diskpart results should have a value of f: Use %usbdrive% wherever you need the f: value.

Also, these two statements:

%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
%cd%tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:

might be in error. The %cd% variable does not include the trailing back slash. If you need the back slash, you need to enter it yourself:

%cd%\tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w7sr.wim 1 c:
%cd%\tools\pe_tools\imagex.exe /apply d:\T61_w732.wim 1 d:

Good luck. The best way to have any external drive keep it's designation as a drive letter is to give it a Volume Label and a drive letter that is outside of the parameters of any machine you use it on...
For rexample if your last drive is E: or F: commonly than pick a letter way out of the range such as L: or M;.....you get the picture...
With a Volume Label the drive will hold it's drive letter from machine to machine and won't care about getting swapped.

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