Detect USB and copy *.* to USB drive using batch script

Question

I am trying to write a batch script to detect a USB drive and, if it is plugged in, for example copy c:\\test\\big.txt to the USB drive, and looping to detect anoth

Answer 1

The above code had a flaw which has been attended to in the following code The code works in XP and gives you the USB drive letters, if no usb device is connected , it tells you so !

:: SUCCESS @ 2:39 AM ON 12 OCT 2013 !!! :: IMPROVED BY BOBBY GOREJA

@echo off

set usbdrv=
set usb=No
:: Above two lines on 12 Oct 2013

fsutil fsinfo drives >de
type de | find "Drives:" /v >dlist

for /F "tokens=1" %%c in ('type dlist') do (

               for /F "tokens=3" %%d in ('fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%c') do (

               rem echo Token is %%d

             if %%d equ Removable (

            echo Drive %%c is Removable (USB^)

             set usbletter=%%c 
             set usb=Yes

            echo USB drive letter is %usbletter%

rem     set usbdrv = %%c   <<< this does NOT work!
 rem              echo USB1 drive letter is %usbdrv%

                                                                )
                                         )
                                    )
 del de
 del dlist

             echo  REPEAT:Device at %usbletter%

if  "%usb%"=="No" echo No USB Device Connected .
set usb=

Answer 2

@Aacini I don't have a good setup to this case today, so I instead tried finding my USB webcam. I used devmgmt.msc and devcon listclasses to figure out the membership a connected USB camera would have. After a few tests, I arrived at devcon find =Image USB\*. I figured it would be simple enough to do the same for a USB mass storage device, so I tried devcon find =Volume (per listclasses). Unfortunately, this dumps out a GUID which you would then have to map to a drive letter. A cursory glance at this overflow suggests you can do so from the registry using reg query, but it seems at this point that fsutil would be simplest for your case.

Answer 3

I know this is old but....

@echo off

for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2,3,4 " %%i in (`wmic logicaldisk get caption^,description^,drivetype 2^>NUL`) do (

if %%l equ 2 (
copy c:\test\big.txt %%i
        )
        )

This is assuming of course both drives are inserted.

Answer 4

@echo off
for %%d in (D: E: F: G: H: I: etc...) do (
   if exist %%d\nul (
      echo USB at drive %%d connected
   )
)

EDIT: Below is the right way to do that:

@echo off
for /F "tokens=1*" %%a in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do (
   for %%c in (%%b) do (
      for /F "tokens=3" %%d in ('fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%c') do (
         if %%d equ Removable (
            echo Drive %%c is Removable (USB^)
         )
      )
   )
)