Mapping physical disks to logical drives

We have looked at physical disks and logical disks. We know there is a relationship between them.

disk drive – partition – logical disk

In WMI this maps to.

Win32_DiskDrive – Win32_DiskPartition – Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID

We have two classes that provide the links

Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition and Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition which we can use like this

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition | Select Antecedent, Dependent

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition | Format-List Antecedent, Dependent

but we then have to match the information ourselves.  if we look at the information for the C: drive

Antecedent : \\RSLAPTOP01\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0"
Dependent  : \\RSLAPTOP01\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="Disk #0, Partition #1"

Antecedent : \\RSLAPTOP01\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="Disk #0, Partition #1"
Dependent  : \\RSLAPTOP01\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID="C:"

we can see that we get antecedent and dependent pairs – we can access these associations directly using a WQL query to find the ASSOCIATORS.

PS> Get-WmiObject -Query "ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID=’\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0′} " | Select __CLASS -Unique

__CLASS
——-
Win32_PnPEntity
Win32_ComputerSystem
Win32_DiskPartition
Win32_PhysicalMedia

Shows us that we have a direct association between the Win32_DiskDrive class and the Win32_DiskPartition class. Next we have to work out how to get this information for all drives and all partitions