{"id":73071,"date":"2015-09-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/28\/powertip-use-powershell-to-identify-bootable-disks\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:05","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-identify-bootable-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-identify-bootable-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Identify Bootable Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use the&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Get-Disk<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet to identify all bootable devices that are attached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see which USB devices are set to be bootable on my workstation?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Disk<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and filter on the&nbsp;<b>BootFromDisk<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>BusType<\/b>&nbsp;properties, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Get-Disk | Where { $_.BusType -eq &#039;USB&#039; -and $_.BootFromDisk -eq $TRUE }<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet to identify all bootable devices that are attached. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see which USB devices are set to be bootable on my workstation? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet and filter on the&nbsp;BootFromDisk&nbsp;and&nbsp;BusType&nbsp;properties, for example: Get-Disk | Where { $_.BusType -eq &#039;USB&#039; -and $_.BootFromDisk -eq $TRUE }&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-73071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet to identify all bootable devices that are attached. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see which USB devices are set to be bootable on my workstation? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Disk&nbsp;cmdlet and filter on the&nbsp;BootFromDisk&nbsp;and&nbsp;BusType&nbsp;properties, for example: Get-Disk | Where { $_.BusType -eq &#039;USB&#039; -and $_.BootFromDisk -eq $TRUE }&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}