Get-PSDrive

Get drive information.

Syntax
      Get-PSDrive { [[-name] string[]] | [-literalName] string[]  }
         [-Force] [-pSProvider string[]] [-scope string]
            [-UseTransaction] [CommonParameters]

Key
   -name string
       Get only the specified drives.
       Type the drive name or letter without a colon (:),
       separate multiple names with commas.

   -literalName string
       The Drive name which will be used exactly as typed.
       No characters are interpreted as wildcards. If the name includes escape
       characters, enclose it in single quotation marks.

   -PSProvider 
       Get only the drives supported by the specified PowerShell provider.
       Type the name of a provider, such as:
       FileSystem, Registry, or Certificate.
        
   -scope 
       The scope within which to search for the drive.
       Valid values are "Global", "Local", or "Script", or a number relative
       to the current scope (0 through the number of scopes, where 0 is the
       current scope and 1 is its parent).
       "Local" is the default. For more information, see about_Scopes.

   -UseTransaction
       Include the command in the active transaction.

Standard Aliases for Get-PSDrive: gdr

Get-PSDrive gets the PowerShell drives in the current session. You can get a particular drive or all drives in the console.

Get-PSDrive gets the following drive types:

• Windows logical drives on the computer, including drives mapped to a network share.
• Drives exposed by PowerShell providers (such as the Certificate:, Function:, and Alias: drives) and the HKLM: and HKCU: Registry drives.
• Drives created with New-PSDrive.

Examples

Display information about all currently visible drives:

PS C:\> Get-PSDrive

Display information for all FileSystem drives:

PS C:\> Get-PSDrive -psprovider filesystem

Display the description of a PowerShell drive on your system:

PS C:\> (Get-PSDrive DriveName).description

Display all the currently mapped FileSystem drives for this user session by querying the registry:

PS C:\> Get-ChildItem -path HKCU:\Network -recurse |
Get-ItemProperty | Select-Object pschildname, remotepath | Out-String

Display information for drives with names that begin with HK (registry: HKLM, HKCU etc):

PS C:\> Get-PSDrive HK*

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground” ~ Dante Alighieri

Related PowerShell Cmdlets

New-PSDrive - Install a new drive on the machine.
Remove-PSDrive - Remove a provider/drive from its location.
Get-SMBMapping - Get Mapped SMB drives.
Get-Ciminstance win32_logicaldisk.
Get-Ciminstance win32_networkconnection.
[System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives()
Equivalent bash command: ln - Make links between files.