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Use PowerShell to check a VHD's drive letter.
November 16, 2012
A: If you mounted a virtual hard disk (VHD) and want to check its drive letter, use the following two Windows PowerShell commands:
$DiskNumber = (Get-VHD “d:temptemp2gb.vhdx”).DiskNumber
$DriveLetter = (gwmi Win32_DiskPartition -filter "DeviceID like 'Disk #$DiskNumber,%'").PSBase.GetRelated('Win32_LogicalDisk') | Select-object -ExpandProperty DeviceID
Another option using PowerShell, is to enter this:
$disks = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DiskDrive | where Caption -eq "Microsoft Virtual Disk" foreach ($disk in $disks){ $vols = Get-CimAssociatedInstance -CimInstance $disk -ResultClassName Win32_DiskPartition foreach ($vol in $vols){ Get-CimAssociatedInstance -CimInstance $vol -ResultClassName Win32_LogicalDisk | where VolumeName -ne 'System Reserved' } }
Here's an example of output I received:
DeviceID DriveType ProviderName VolumeName Size FreeSpace -------- --------- ------------ ---------- ---- --------- N: 3 TempVHD 2111827968
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