Automatically get first drive letter

I just added the possibility to automatically use the first unused drive letter even when mounting virtual disks with the command line tool. For this to work, specify #: as drive letter.

Example:

imdisk -a -s 60M -m #:

http://www.ltr-data..../imdiskinst.exe

Thanks!!

This is a good improvement..

One question: how should one retrieve the newly assigned drive letter?

(I know how to detect each drive, but was thinking on just using imdisk.exe to interface with other apps/scripts in complete unnatended manner)

Any good ideas on this matter?

• Using an environment variable (%#:%=newlyCreatedDriveLetter)
• Outputting an errorlevel (using 0, 1, 2, 3.. - good for batch files)
• Writing an Ini type file (good for wb scripts interaction for example)
• Using a unique identifier (user specified) as title label when creating the image and later be able to unmount using this title label (solely using imdisk.exe to interface with these virtual disks)

Thanks!!

This is a good improvement..

One question: how should one retrieve the newly assigned drive letter?

(I know how to detect each drive, but was thinking on just using imdisk.exe to interface with other apps/scripts in complete unnatended manner)

Should be possible with a for statement in a batch file:

for /f "tokens=4 delims= " %%a in ('imdisk -a -s 60M -m #:') do set IMDISK_DRIVE_LETTER=%%a

Then you can use this variable IMDISK_DRIVE_LETTER later:

imdisk -d -m %IMDISK_DRIVE_LETTER%