CMD command to check connected USB devices

Question

I would like to obtain by a command prompt a list of all USB devices connected to my computer (O.S. Windows 10). I've googled to find such a command, but all results seems useless to me or worse workless. Does anybody know how can I do that?

Thank you

Barger

Answer 1

you can download USBview and get all the information you need. Along with the list of devices, it will also show you the configuration of each device.

Jaynejaynell

USBview is part of the debug tools for windows. You can see how to get this program here. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/… – Terrence

Why is this accepted and -6 without any good comments? – Gerena

The accepted answer is not a command. Thats why I down voted. – Pericline

if the accepted answer is not something that was wanted in the first place, then it means that the question was somewhat asked incorrectly. So i think it's better to down vote the question either. because it wanted a command but accepted a software recommendation as the answer! so the question was not asked correctly at the first place, right? – Florin

Answer 2

You can use the wmic command:

wmic path CIM_LogicalDevice where "Description like 'USB%'" get /value

Chaldron

Unfortunately this does not work with mobile devices since they don't mount to be a drive. – Platy

WMIC is deprecated – Chest

what is the replacement for WMIC, Sir @KVM? – Dredi

@Dredi #57122375 – Chest

Answer 3

With powershell, you can use the command :

Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -match '^USB' }

a simple short to use powershell from cmd and get result :

powershell "Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -match '^USB' }"

Louis

This worked great on my Windows 10! Thanks! – Habiliment

Answer 4

You could use wmic command:

wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=2 get <DeviceID, VolumeName, Description, ...>

Drivetype 2 indicates that its a removable disk.

Under

you have to remove spaces around '=' to get result -> wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=2 get * – Claman

You should have in mind, that external Hard Drives have drivetype=3 (local disk) like internal hard drives. Only USB sticks have drivetype=2. – Wheelsman

Answer 5

pnputil /enum-devices /connected /class USB

This requires Windows 10 1903 or higher. List of possible flags

Cormophyte

Answer 6

@echo off
powershell -noLogo -NoProfile "Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -match '^USB' -and $_.FriendlyName -match 'G27'}" | find /i "G27" >nul

if %errorlevel%==1 (
  echo.Plug G27 steering wheel into USB port
) else (
  echo.ok
)
pause

Garlandgarlanda

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