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Is this possible?
My first guess would be something like:
C:> Get-WmiObject Win32_CDROMDrive
But when I tried this, it only tells me Caption, Drive, Manufacturer,VolumeName
No information on whether or not there is a CD in the disc drive.
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Microsoft Windows usersOpen System Information. In the System Information window, click the + symbol next to Components. If you see "CD-ROM," click it once to display the CD-ROM in the left window.
For a list of the Windows PowerShell drives in your Windows PowerShell session, use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet. Although the drives in the display vary with the drives on your system, the listing will look similar to the output of the Get-PSDrive command shown above.
In the Run dialog box, type devmgmt. msc then press the Enter key. In the Device Manager window, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives. Verify that the optical drive is listed.
The Get-PSDrive cmdlet gets the drives in the current session. You can get a particular drive or all drives in the session. This cmdlet gets the following types of drives: Windows logical drives on the computer, including drives mapped to network shares.
You can get this information by
(Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_CDROMDrive -Property *).MediaLoaded
You can see what properties are available for that WMI class by
Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_CDROMDrive -Property * | Get-Member
and more detailed documentation from
Get-WMIHelp -Class Win32_CDROMDrive
In general, you will find that liberal use of the Get-Help, Get-Member, Get-Command, and Get-WMIHelp cmdlets will provide you with a great deal of information, and possibly eliminate the need to ask questions like this here and wait for an answer that may or may not come.
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