How do I check Windows RAID status from the command line?

Question

Hi All,

Windows 11 - 22H2

How do I check Windows RAID status from the command line? This is what I am thinking of doing:

@Echo off

(
echo List volume
echo exit
) | C:\Windows\System32\diskpart.exe

And then checking to see if Status=Healthy for the RAID partition. Is there a better way?

K:\Windows\NtUtil>DiskPart.ListVol.bat | grep -i " C "
Volume 3 C DRIVE_C NTFS Partition 39 GB Healthy Boot

Many thanks,

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T
DISKPART needs to be run as an Administrator. AAAAHHHHH!!!!

Is there a way to call diskpart that will elevate it to administrator so I can call it from a user? And No UAC?

Answer 1

This is one method to detect RAID status using command line:

diskpart
lis dis
sel dis W
(replace W with the disk number)
det dis

For the det dis results view the row: Type

C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart  
  
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.964  
  
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  
On computer: DESKTOP-K2CP43S  
  
DISKPART> lis dis  
  
  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt  
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---  
  Disk 0    Online          698 GB      0 B  
  
DISKPART> sel dis 0  
  
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.  
  
DISKPART> det dis  
  
Hitachi HTS727575A9E364  
Disk ID: 2CE38090  
Type   : RAID  
Status : Online  
Path   : 0  
Target : 1  
LUN ID : 0  
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#RAID(P00T01L00)  
Current Read-only State : No  
Read-only  : No  
Boot Disk  : Yes  
Pagefile Disk  : Yes  
Hibernation File Disk  : No  
Crashdump Disk  : Yes  
Clustered Disk  : No  
  
  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info  
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------  
  Volume 1     K   System Rese  NTFS   Partition    499 MB  Healthy    System  
  Volume 2     C   Windows      NTFS   Partition    689 GB  Healthy    Boot  
  Volume 3     D   HP_TOOLS     FAT32  Partition   2056 MB  Healthy  
  Volume 4                      RAW    Partition   7148 MB  Healthy    Hidden  
  
DISKPART>  

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Answer 2

Hi @Todd Chester ,

maybe this is helpful: https://gist.github.com/schakko/4713248

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 3

Thank you!

I wrote something very similar. I read disk partpart and search for the line with "Mirror" on it. Then look for teh status of "Healthy". If not, I throw a popup.

It would be really helpful if I could get this information from a command that did not require administrator privileges.

Answer 4

You can use

wmic diskdrive get status

or

wmic diskdrive 0 get status
wmic diskdrive 1 get status
etc...

which does not need to be Admin

(Diskpart uses IVdsService which needs Admin rights...)

Answer 5

These were the results with the above wmic commands:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2251]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>wmic diskdrive get status
Status
OK

C:\WINDOWS\system32>wmic diskdrive 0 get status
Status
OK

Besides diskpart using administrative command prompt Ive not found any wmic commands that display raid information.

The list of available wmic commands available using: wmic diskdrive get /? were all tried.
https://winaero.com/get-disk-drive-information-in-windows-10-with-this-command/
None displayed RAID similar to diskpart results.

RAID information can be viewed by using free third party software.

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