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List DVD Drives

;Use the Win32_CDROMDrive class and check for the acronym DVD in the Name or DeviceID property.
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = GetObject( StrCat( "winmgmts:\\" , strComputer , "\root\cimv2") )
colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( "Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive" )
dvdlist = ""
ForEach objItem In colItems
    deviceID = objItem.DeviceID
    If StrIndexNC( deviceID, "DVD", 1, @FWDSCAN ) > 0
      DRIVE = objItem.Drive
      dvdlist = StrCat( dvdlist, @TAB, DRIVE )
    EndIf
Next
dvdlist = StrTrim( dvdlist )
colItems = 0
objWMIService = 0
Message("DVD Drive list", dvdlist)

Article ID:   W17013

File Created: 2007:07:03:14:27:36

Last Updated: 2007:07:03:14:27:36