Fat 32

Hi

Bit of an odd request but does anyone know how to do a quick scan of your network and have it return a list of host names which C drive is FAT32

Thanks

Lee H

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jibbajabba

Don't think there is a quick way apart from connecting to the Computer Management remotely and check the Disk Management ...

Edit: You can check it with diskpart too .. maybe there is a way to use diskpart for remote systems

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status      Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  ----------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online       233 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    No Media        0 B      0 B
  Disk 2    No Media        0 B      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> detail disk

Areca ARC-1200-VOL#00 SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: AF0BA1F9
Type   : RAID
Bus    : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : Yes
Pagefile Disk  : Yes
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : Yes

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 1     C                NTFS   Partition    233 GB  Healthy    System

Claymoore

WMI will do it. You can query WMI:

"SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE FileSystem = 'FAT32'"

This would work well with PowerShell using input and output files. Here is a script adapted from another WMI query based script I was using to check for some installed software. (I haven't tested this one though)

#Define Input File
$ComputerFile = "C:\Temp\List.txt"
$ComputerList = Get-Content $ComputerFile
#$strComputer = "."

foreach ($NextComputer in $ComputerList)
{
write-host "Connecting to $NextComputer..."
$Disk = get-wmiobject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk
WHERE FileSystem = 'FAT32'" -ComputerName $NextComputer
Write-Host "FileSystem = $Disk.FileSystem"

if ($Disk.FileSystem -eq "FAT32")
{
Add-Content "C:\Temp\FAT32.txt" "$NextComputer"
}
else
{
Add-Content "C:\Temp\NTFS.txt" "$NextComputer"
}
}

Lee H

I was hoping to maybe send out a script and have it return a TXT file with all the host names

Or is that like waving a magic wand, lol

Claymoore

Lee H wrote: »

I was hoping to maybe send out a script and have it return a TXT file with all the host names

Or is that like waving a magic wand, lol

That's exactly what the PowerShell script does. It reads an input file with a list of computers, performs a remote WMI query on each one, and writes the computer name to a different file based on whether the disk is formatted FAT32 or not (which would mean NTFS).

HeroPsycho

Claymoore,

You don't have to have quite the complexity of the script. You don't need a loop or conditional logic for this. Just set your $computers variable to be a collection and reference the collection in the script in the -computer parameter

You can also built a CSV file instead of writing out to a txt file. This would allow sorting, etc., on top of it simplifying the script.

This would do it all while prompting for an account with the proper rights to the computers.

$cred = get-credential
$computers = get-content listfile.txt
get-wmiobject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE FileSystem = 'FAT32' " -Computer $computers -credential $cred | select systemname,drivetype,filesystem | export-csv report.csv

Done!

Edit: Claymoore, your script wouldn't get the non-FAT32 drives since you only queried for FAT32 from the get go.

Lee H

We have a mixture of W2K and XP so WMI wil only apply to XP clients, still good to find all the XP PC;s though for sure

Thanks for your help

HeroPsycho

Why do you think it won't work with W2K?

Lee H

Thanks Hero, just googled it and found this

NT-Bugtraq: WMI Filtering for Windows 2000

HeroPsycho

Lee H wrote: »

Thanks Hero, just googled it and found this

NT-Bugtraq: WMI Filtering for Windows 2000

Dude, WMI filtering for GPO's is only natively unsupported for Windows 2000. W2K still has WMI capability. Very very different things.

Claymoore

HeroPsycho wrote: »

Claymoore,

You don't have to have quite the complexity of the script. You don't need a loop or conditional logic for this. Just set your $computers variable to be a collection and reference the collection in the script in the -computer parameter

You can also built a CSV file instead of writing out to a txt file. This would allow sorting, etc., on top of it simplifying the script.

This would do it all while prompting for an account with the proper rights to the computers.

$cred = get-credential
$computers = get-content listfile.txt
get-wmiobject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE FileSystem = 'FAT32' " -Computer $computers -credential $cred | select systemname,drivetype,filesystem | export-csv report.csv

Done!

Edit: Claymoore, your script wouldn't get the non-FAT32 drives since you only queried for FAT32 from the get go.

Thanks, HP. Still getting the hang of this whole PowerShell thing. I jumbled a script together to query for some installed software and just adapted it here, then added the WHERE statement and of course nver tested it. But to convert all those lines to 3 lines of code is pretty sweet.

I was dreading learning PowerShell at first, but now that I am on an Exchange 2007 project and actually using it I am finding it relatively easy to learn and very powerful. Quest PowerGui and the PowerGui script editor certainly help.

HeroPsycho

Pick up a copy of PowerShell TFM 2nd Edition. It's awesome!

undomiel

Windows Management Instrumentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claims that it comes with 2000 and ME and is available as a download from 95 & 98. I couldn't find a page talking about it specifically in Windows 2000 but about SP2 adding additional functionality to Windows 2000 WMI.