You can use the PowerShell Get-Disk cmdlet to query disk drives
within or attached to a PC running the
Microsoft Windows operating system. E.g.:
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk
Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition
Style
------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ----------
0 ST3320418AS 9VMNNJDN Healthy Online 298.09 GB MBR
4 Generic- C... 058F63626421 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW
6 Generic- M... 058F63626423 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW
3 Generic- S... 058F63626420 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW
5 Generic- S... 058F63626422 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW
1 Lexar USB ... AA58ZF9FJCCALAOA Healthy Online 14.92 GB MBR
2 WD My Pass... WXP1A27034VH Healthy Online 931.48 GB GPT
PS C:\Users\Public>The aboue output shows me that the Windows 10 system on which I ran the
command has an internal
Seagate disk drive with a model number of
ST3320418AS; I can tell it is a Seagate drive since Seagate
starts the model number of its drives with "ST". The serial number of the
drive is 9VMNNJDN and it isn't experiencing problems, i.e., it is
"healthy". I can also see the drive is 300 GB in size and and uses a
Master Boot Record (MBR) partition scheme rather than a
GUID Partition Table (GPT) as is used with drive number 2 on the system,
which is a Western Digital (WD) drive.
If I wanted information only on one particular drive, I could get information on the internal drive by specifying its drive number, which is "0". Or, if I wanted information on just specific drives on the system I could specify them as comma-separated drive numbers as shown below.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk 0 Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 0 ST3320418AS 9VMNNJDN Healthy Online 298.09 GB MBR PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk 0, 2 Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 0 ST3320418AS 9VMNNJDN Healthy Online 298.09 GB MBR 2 WD My Pass... WXP1A27034VH Healthy Online 931.48 GB GPT PS C:\Users\Public>
In the above output, some values may be truncated with the truncation
indicated by three dots, e.g., for drive 2. I can see the truncated
information as well as more details by
piping the output to Format-List.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk 2 | Format-List UniqueId : USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_WD&PROD_MY_PASSPORT_25E1&REV_1019\575850314132373033345648&0:THELMA-LOU Number : 2 Path : \\?\usbstor#disk&ven_wd&prod_my_passport_25e1&rev_1019#575850314132373033345648&0#{53f56307-b6bf-1 1d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} Manufacturer : WD Model : My Passport 25E1 SerialNumber : WXP1A27034VH Size : 931.48 GB AllocatedSize : 1000170586112 LogicalSectorSize : 512 PhysicalSectorSize : 4096 NumberOfPartitions : 1 PartitionStyle : GPT IsReadOnly : False IsSystem : False IsBoot : False PS C:\Users\Public>
Or, if I just want a specific value or values I can specify the desired
value(s) as shown below by piping the output to select.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk 2 | select Model Model ----- My Passport 25E1 PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk 2 | select Model, SerialNumber Model SerialNumber ----- ------------ My Passport 25E1 WXP1A27034VH PS C:\Users\Public>
Or if I wanted to see just the disk manufacturered by Seagate, I could use the following command.
If I want to only see the drives that use the MBR or GPT partitioning
scheme, I can pipe the output of Get-Disk to Where-Object
as shown below.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.PartitionStyle -eq 'MBR'} Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 0 ST3320418AS 9VMNNJDN Healthy Online 298.09 GB MBR 1 Lexar USB ... AA58ZF9FJCCALAOA Healthy Online 14.92 GB MBR PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.PartitionStyle -eq 'GPT'} Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 2 WD My Pass... WXP1A27034VH Healthy Online 931.48 GB GPT PS C:\Users\Public>
If I only want to see a list of those connected to the system by a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection, I can specify the bus type as shown below.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.Bustype -Eq 'USB'} Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 4 Generic- Compact F... 058F63626421 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW 6 Generic- MS/MS-Pro 058F63626423 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW 3 Generic- SD/MMC 058F63626420 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW 5 Generic- SM/xD Pic... 058F63626422 Healthy No Media 0 B RAW 1 Lexar USB Flash Drive AA58ZF9FJCCALAOA Healthy Online 14.92 GB MBR 2 WD My Passport 25E1 WXP1A27034VH Healthy Online 931.48 GB GPT PS C:\Users\Public>
You can chain pipes to narrow down the output and show full details for the drives selected as shown below.
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.Bustype -Eq 'USB'} | Where-Object {$_.PartitionStyle -Eq 'Gpt'} | format-list UniqueId : USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_WD&PROD_MY_PASSPORT_25E1&REV_1019\575850314132373033345648&0:THELMA-LOU Number : 2 Path : \\?\usbstor#disk&ven_wd&prod_my_passport_25e1&rev_1019#575850314132373033345648&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2 -00a0c91efb8b} Manufacturer : WD Model : My Passport 25E1 SerialNumber : WXP1A27034VH Size : 931.48 GB AllocatedSize : 1000170586112 LogicalSectorSize : 512 PhysicalSectorSize : 4096 NumberOfPartitions : 1 PartitionStyle : GPT IsReadOnly : False IsSystem : False IsBoot : False PS C:\Users\Public>
If you wish to use PowerShell to determine which drive will be used to boot the system you can specify the "IsBoot" parameter. E.g.:
PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.IsBoot -eq 'True'} Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 0 ST3320418AS 9VMNNJDN Healthy Online 298.09 GB MBR PS C:\Users\Public> Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.IsBoot -eq 'True'} | format-list UniqueId : SCSI\DISK&VEN_&PROD_ST3320418AS\4&D20E9B0&0&000000:THELMA-LOU Number : 0 Path : \\?\scsi#disk&ven_&prod_st3320418as#4&d20e9b0&0&000000#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} Manufacturer : Model : ST3320418AS SerialNumber : 9VMNNJDN Size : 298.09 GB AllocatedSize : 320072933376 LogicalSectorSize : 512 PhysicalSectorSize : 512 NumberOfPartitions : 3 PartitionStyle : MBR IsReadOnly : False IsSystem : True IsBoot : True PS C:\Users\Public>
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