scrips to change drive letters

[PEO]

I'm after a script to run from the server to change a group of computer drive letters.

 

so I want to move drives 'E' and 'F' to 'Y' and 'Z'

 

Server is server 2008

workstations are XP Pro SP3

 

any help suggestions much appreciated

 

Cheers

 

Kev

[bio]

found this to get you started

 

' Change the Drive Letter of a Volume


strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colVolumes = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("Select * from Win32_Volume Where Name = 'D:\\'")

For Each objVolume in colVolumes
   objVolume.DriveLetter = "Q:"
   objVolume.Put_
Next

 

bio..

[PEO]

I have no idea what it means lol

[mac_shinobi]

I'm after a script to run from the server to change a group of computer drive letters.

 

so I want to move drives 'E' and 'F' to 'Y' and 'Z'

 

Server is server 2008

workstations are XP Pro SP3

 

any help suggestions much appreciated

 

Cheers

 

Kev

 

Are you using logon / startup scripts to assign or map the drives in the first place ? If so then you can make the ammendments in those scripts ?

 

Generally those scripts are in the sysvol area afaik - could be wrong

 

If not and you are using group policy then am guessing you can use group policy to specify what drive letters you want mapping to each network share / mapping ?

[mac_shinobi]

I have no idea what it means lol

 

It's a vbscript that uses wmi and the win32_Volume class to change drive letters of a specific partition / drive

[PEO]

yes we have startup scripts for logon.

 

 

thats in a bat file

 

'Logon batch file to map any drives and change security group memberships

net use r: /d

net use t: /d

net use k: /d

net use r: \\W8E-DC01\Apps$

net use t: "\\W8E-DC01\Central Resource Library"

net use k: \\dfe4105dc2\mis

net localgroup Administrators MYSCHOOL\Technicians /add

[PEO]

found this to get you started

 

' Change the Drive Letter of a Volume


strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colVolumes = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("Select * from Win32_Volume Where Name = 'D:\\'")

For Each objVolume in colVolumes
   objVolume.DriveLetter = "Q:"
   objVolume.Put_
Next

 

bio..

 

Ok I tested that on my machine and it works, but is it possible to edit it so it does two drive letters rather than just on?

 

 

edit.... my machine in windows 7 ultimate

Edited January 12, 2010 by PEO

[mac_shinobi]

yes we have startup scripts for logon.

 

 

thats in a bat file

 

'Logon batch file to map any drives and change security group memberships

net use r: /d

net use t: /d

net use k: /d

net use r: \\W8E-DC01\Apps$

net use t: "\\W8E-DC01\Central Resource Library"

net use k: \\dfe4105dc2\mis

net localgroup Administrators MYSCHOOL\Technicians /add

 

Instead of using the other vbscript can't you just change the letters in the original script so it changes the letters there ie

 

 

net use r: /d
net use t: /d
net use k: /d
net use [b]A[/b]: \\W8E-DC01\Apps$
net use [b]B[/b]: "\\W8E-DC01\Central Resource Library"
net use [b]C[/b]: \\dfe4105dc2\mis
net localgroup Administrators MYSCHOOL\Technicians /add

 

where A, B and C are the drive letters you want

[PEO]

sorry I should have said, the drive letters I wish to change are virtual cd/dvd drives

[Quackers]

I do not recommend using Z: as i'm sure its used by the system at netlogon for scripts, and so could cause an issue.

 

Edit, found this from MS "By default, Windows XP assigns mapped network drives to the highest available drive letter, starting with drive Z, to avoid drive letter collisions."

Edited January 12, 2010 by Quackers

[PEO]

script dosent work on xp

[PEO]

Cheers Quackers, you learn something new everyday I didnt know that

[PEO]

screen shot of error message on a machine running Windows xp pro sp3

[Danlewis3]

That script only works for mapped drives i believe your virtual ones will be done via software i think

[PEO]

before I created the image for the machine I changed the drive letters but sysprep put them back to the begining. I'm a little stuck here as I dont fancy changing them, machine by machine everytime I depoly an image.

[srochford]

I think you need to look at the software that's creating the virtual CD drives - that's probably got an option to say "use drive Q:" rather than "use first available drive"

[DMcCoy]

Diskpart should do

 

diskpart /s c:\scriptname.txt

 

The script would be:

 

select volume E

remove letter=E

assign letter=Y

select volume F

remove letter=F

assign letter=Z

exit

 

 

I've not tried it as a startup script however.

[PEO]

Diskpart should do

 

diskpart /s c:\scriptname.txt

 

The script would be:

 

select volume E

remove letter=E

assign letter=Y

select volume F

remove letter=F

assign letter=Z

exit

 

 

I've not tried it as a startup script however.

 

Thank you for this I will take a look this morning