The tool came to life, because standard Windows or other programs like nirCMD don't have a good way of showing a status of a disk drive. In fact, they don't.
Because of that, it wasn't easily possible to use the available features (PowerShell, nirCMD) to create a macro for my keyboard to open and close the disk drive.
The key was to have a switch possible so that one keypress would do a open and close based on status of the drive.
The tool features a comprehensive set of tools.
| Function | Valid Values | Return |
|---|---|---|
| open | Drive Letter or nothing |
If specified opens that specific drive. Otherwise opens all drives found. |
| close | Drive Letter or nothing |
If specified closes that specific drive. Otherwise closes all drives found. |
| dynamic | Drive Letter |
Opens or Closes the specified drive based on the current status. |
| status | Drive Letter |
Opens or Closes the specified drive based on the current status. |
| status | Drive Letter |
Displays the status number of specified drive. 0 = Drive closed 1 = Drive open 2 = Drive closed, media loaded |
NH-CDUTIL.exe dynamic G or NH-CDUTIL.exe dynamic G:
As pictured above, the drive can be specified either by single character or with column.
Then the tool will open or close the drive specified. If you want to close or open all drives use the respective function.
- DatTestBench - Thanks to my pal for helping me out on C++ questions.