Decoding the mounted device information

In the previous post we looked at how to read the mounted device information. The data is in binary though – if you want it readable and not all of it is readable – try this

$data = @()            
Get-Item -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices |            
select -ExpandProperty Property |            
where {$_ -like "\Dos*"} |             
foreach {            
 $name = $_            
 $bin = (Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices -Name $name)."$name"            
             
 $decoded = @()            
 $bin | foreach {            
  $decoded += [char]$_            
 }            
            
            
 $data += New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{            
  Device =  $name            
  BinaryValue  = $bin            
  DecodedValue = $($decoded -join "")            
 }            
             
}            
$data | Format-Table  Device, DecodedValue  -AutoSize

Same as last time except for the loop through the binary data using [char] to decode the ASCII values.  use –join to make a string rather than an array. The apparent gaps in the resultant string are because we’re dealing with Unicode