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will list the physical drives.
will list the physical drives from the windows command line.


  C:\Users\maarten.LIPPMANN.000>wmic diskdrive list brief
  C:\Users\maarten.LIPPMANN>wmic diskdrive list brief
  Caption                  DeviceID            Model                    Partitions  Size
  Caption                  DeviceID            Model                    Partitions  Size
  TOSHIBA MK1637GSX        \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1  TOSHIBA MK1637GSX        1          160039272960
  TOSHIBA MK1637GSX        \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1  TOSHIBA MK1637GSX        1          160039272960
  TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ    \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0  TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ    4          128035676160
  TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ    \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0  TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ    4          128035676160
  ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2  ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  1          2000396321280
  ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2  ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  1          2000396321280
You can then use [http://maarten.lippmann.us/?page_id=116 dd] from the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ unix utils] package to write an image to a drive.
I use this to backup or install [http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/ flashrd] images onto a usb stick or cf card for my [https://soekris.com/ soekris] devices if I don't have easy access to a Linux or BSD system.

Latest revision as of 16:59, 20 June 2015

wmic diskdrive list brief

will list the physical drives from the windows command line.

C:\Users\maarten.LIPPMANN>wmic diskdrive list brief
Caption                   DeviceID            Model                     Partitions  Size
TOSHIBA MK1637GSX         \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1  TOSHIBA MK1637GSX         1           160039272960
TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ     \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0  TOSHIBA THNSNC128GCSJ     4           128035676160
ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2  ST2000NM 0011 USB Device  1           2000396321280


You can then use dd from the unix utils package to write an image to a drive.

I use this to backup or install flashrd images onto a usb stick or cf card for my soekris devices if I don't have easy access to a Linux or BSD system.