look for volume name, change drive letter

[EricM]

I am currently learning how to do batch scripting. Would I like to do is make a batch file that looks for the volume name of a drive and then once it find its renames the drive letter to another letter.

Example

Plug in usb drive: OMG (E:)
Script finds volume label OMG
Renames (E:) to (O:)
End results is

OMG (O:)

I would like this to work somehow, because I am going to be using it to set up multi computers at once. I am just trying to make the install process a bit smoother on things.

Thanks

Eric

[Squashman]

You may not even need to do that at all. I would rather you explain what you are trying because there may be a better way to do it.

[EricM]

What I would like to do is Move a certain file, well its a VPN connection file. So in the script I would like the file be moved from the USB with a copy and paste command. so from O:\rasphone.pbk copy file from file path to. C:\Users\OMG\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk

[aGerman]

You however have to find the drive letter of you USB device first. Once you know it the changing of the letter would be pointless.

Untested:

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@echo off &setlocal
for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%i in (
  'wmic logicaldisk where "VolumeName='OMG'" get DeviceID /value'
) do for /f %%k in ("%%j") do set "drive=%%k"
ECHO copy /y "%drive%\rasphone.pbk" "%appdata%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\"
PAUSE

Remove ECHO and PAUSE if drive letter and path are displayed correctly.

Regards
aGerman

[EricM]

I will give it shot in a little bit here today and let you know the results of this.

Thanks in advance

*EDIT*

I tested the above code and it shows the drive and the location correctly. It just doesn't copy/paste the the file in the folder location.

[aGerman]

Remove ECHO and PAUSE if drive letter and path are displayed correctly.

[Squashman]

Remove ECHO and PAUSE if drive letter and path are displayed correctly.

Reading is FUN!

[EricM]

Reading is FUN!

I didn't know echo and pause would cause it to stop it from copying over. Like I said before, I am learning on how to do this. sorry for not understand how it all works.