Thanks, but  Tim Medin solution ended up being pretty slick. Tested it, and
it worked great. Thanks.

Adrian

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Jim Halfpenny <[email protected]>wrote:

> You could enumerate any attached drives and look for a predetermined file
> name to identify your data drive. It's not exactly elegant but it would
> work.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On 12 March 2010 15:49, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, it's not running from a drive yet (I'm doing something weird which
>> I'll talk about later). I need the command to go out and find the drive to
>> use.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adrian
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Butturini, Russell <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>   Have you tried using the %CD% environment variable? I think it will
>>> populate with the directory you’re running your script from.  Also, are you
>>> doing this in VBScript or batch scripting?
>>>
>>>
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>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Crenshaw
>>> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 12:16 AM
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>>> *Subject:* [Pauldotcom] Drive letter from volume name
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>     I'm writing a u3 script of sorts. I need to be able to know where to
>>> copy data to, but the drive letter will change depending on the box I stick
>>> it in. I want to do it all from one command line.Ive found a way as long as
>>> I know my drive's volume name (MyThumb ).  This seems to work:
>>>
>>>
>>> WMIC logicaldisk list brief |findstr MyThumb > delme.txt && FOR /F
>>> "tokens=1*" %i IN ('type delme.txt') DO set ufddrive = %i\
>>>
>>> But is there a cleaner way?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adrian
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