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How to list your disk drives in DOS

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brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello,

how to display the list of all drives present on my PC via MS DOS?

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    KarCAroum Posted messages 298 Status Member 91
     
    it all depends on what you want to do
    (Dos no longer exists)
    under the command interpreter
    diskpart (beware !!! don't mess around)
    list volume
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    1. KarCAroum Posted messages 298 Status Member 91
       
      or
      fsutil fsinfo drives
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    2. Tino
       

      There are indeed many old computers with MS-DOS, just answer the question sometimes!

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      1. steph810 Posted messages 1865 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   152 > Tino
         

        You can try fdisk

        !!! Be careful not to format everything

        What are you running, Win 95-98???

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      2. brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177 > steph810 Posted messages 1865 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Hello,

        Since this is about politely responding to off-topic posts, we should first agree on what old computers are.

        Real DOS mode is only supported up to Windows 98; after that, we have a 32-bit command interpreter.

        Even if the ancient machine runs under MsDos 6.22 without Shell or Windows 3.11 where the FOR command is operational, FSUTIL only works in emulated DOS.

        In the first case, we will indeed have issues with network drives unless a letter is assigned to them via SUBST, and they must also be accessible, meaning that specific network drivers need to be added to MsDos, along with USB drives.

        Starting from Windows 95, the syntax is universal, as noted on Professor Salmi's Batch site, which struggles to even know XP as early as 2010-2011:
         

        @echo off & setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion for %%d in (a: b: c: d: e: f: g: h: i: j: k: l: m: n: o: p: q: r: s: t: u: v: w: x: y: z:) do ( dir %%d\ > nul 2>&1 if !errorlevel! EQU 0 echo %%d ) endlocal & goto :EOF

        In emulated DOS, I can also get the type, and since it's in English, "No such Root Directory" needs to be replaced with "Ce répertoire racine n'existe pas"

         

        @echo off & setlocal enableextensions (for %%d in (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do ^ @fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%d:) ^ | find /v "No such Root Directory" endlocal & goto :EOF
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