Show disk drive info of a (remote) computer (VBScript/WMI)

Category:

System/API

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Francis Danta

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic Script

More information:

More samples on http://www.activxperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmisamples/

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' (None)

Code:

Sub ListDiskDriveInfo( strComputer )
	Dim objWMIService, colItems
	
	Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
	Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive",,48)
		For Each objItem in colItems
		Wscript.Echo "Availability: " & objItem.Availability
		Wscript.Echo "BytesPerSector: " & objItem.BytesPerSector
		Wscript.Echo "CapabilityDescriptions: " & objItem.CapabilityDescriptions
		Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
		Wscript.Echo "CompressionMethod: " & objItem.CompressionMethod
		Wscript.Echo "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode
		Wscript.Echo "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig
	Wscript.Echo "CreationClassName: " & objItem.CreationClassName
	Wscript.Echo "DefaultBlockSize: " & objItem.DefaultBlockSize
	Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
	Wscript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID
	Wscript.Echo "ErrorCleared: " & objItem.ErrorCleared
	Wscript.Echo "ErrorDescription: " & objItem.ErrorDescription
	Wscript.Echo "ErrorMethodology: " & objItem.ErrorMethodology
	Wscript.Echo "Index: " & objItem.Index
	Wscript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate
	Wscript.Echo "InterfaceType: " & objItem.InterfaceType
	Wscript.Echo "LastErrorCode: " & objItem.LastErrorCode
	Wscript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer
	Wscript.Echo "MaxBlockSize: " & objItem.MaxBlockSize
	Wscript.Echo "MaxMediaSize: " & objItem.MaxMediaSize
	Wscript.Echo "MediaLoaded: " & objItem.MediaLoaded
	Wscript.Echo "MediaType: " & objItem.MediaType
	Wscript.Echo "MinBlockSize: " & objItem.MinBlockSize
	Wscript.Echo "Model: " & objItem.Model
	Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
	Wscript.Echo "NeedsCleaning: " & objItem.NeedsCleaning
	Wscript.Echo "NumberOfMediaSupported: " & objItem.NumberOfMediaSupported
	Wscript.Echo "Partitions: " & objItem.Partitions
	Wscript.Echo "PNPDeviceID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID
	Wscript.Echo "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities
	Wscript.Echo "PowerManagementSupported: " & objItem.PowerManagementSupported
	Wscript.Echo "SCSIBus: " & objItem.SCSIBus
	Wscript.Echo "SCSILogicalUnit: " & objItem.SCSILogicalUnit
	Wscript.Echo "SCSIPort: " & objItem.SCSIPort
	Wscript.Echo "SCSITargetId: " & objItem.SCSITargetId
	Wscript.Echo "SectorsPerTrack: " & objItem.SectorsPerTrack
	Wscript.Echo "Size: " & objItem.Size
	Wscript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status
	Wscript.Echo "StatusInfo: " & objItem.StatusInfo
	Wscript.Echo "SystemCreationClassName: " & objItem.SystemCreationClassName
	Wscript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName
	Wscript.Echo "TotalCylinders: " & objItem.TotalCylinders
	Wscript.Echo "TotalHeads: " & objItem.TotalHeads
	Wscript.Echo "TotalSectors: " & objItem.TotalSectors
	Wscript.Echo "TotalTracks: " & objItem.TotalTracks
	Wscript.Echo "TracksPerCylinder: " & objItem.TracksPerCylinder
	Next

End Sub

' ****************************************************************************
' Main
' ****************************************************************************
Dim strComputer
Do
   strComputer = inputbox( "Please enter a computername or . for local computer", "Input" )
Loop until strComputer <> ""

ListDiskDriveInfo( strComputer )

WScript.Echo( vbCrlf & "For more samples, goto http://www.activxperts.com/activmonitor and click" )
WScript.Echo( "on WMI samples" )