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chetankini
chetankini

Reputation: 31

Powershell code to automate removal of drive letter

Can someone help me out with a way on how to remove a drive letter from the drive with the least memory using powershell ?
I have a partition that is 7 mb and i want to remove the drive letter from it....

any help will be greatly appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2133

Answers (1)

TessellatingHeckler
TessellatingHeckler

Reputation: 28983

Get the smallest volume:

# 'Fixed' type avoids choosing a CD-ROM drive with no media in it, at 0 bytes

$Volumes = Get-Volume | Where-Object DriveType -eq 'Fixed' 
$SmallestVolume = $Volumes | Sort-Object -Property Size | select -First 1

Then dig through the Scripting Guy blog to find out how to remove a drive letter, find the suggested method doesn't work, then use the comments to find a method which does work:

$SmallestVolume | Get-Partition | ForEach { 
    Remove-PartitionAccessPath -DiskNumber $_.DiskNumber -PartitionNumber $_.PartitionNumber -AccessPath "$($_.DriveLetter):"
}

I tried it once, YMMV. Needs to be 'run as' administrator, or Get-Partition will have no results.

Upvotes: 2

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