CMD command to check connected USB devices

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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

score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 29 '18 at 20:04

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You can use the wmic command:

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

edited Oct 29 '18 at 20:04

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answered Oct 06 '17 at 09:42

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Unfortunately this does not work with mobile devices since they don't mount to be a drive. – kakyo Sep 03 '19 at 05:21
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WMIC is deprecated – KVM Jul 25 '20 at 19:43
what is the replacement for WMIC, Sir @KVM? – ASPaiva Mar 04 '21 at 21:51
@ASPaiva https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57121875/what-can-i-do-about-wmic-is-deprecated – KVM Mar 05 '21 at 10:10

Mimouni · Answer 2 · 2023-03-20T12:38:18.323

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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' }"

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answered Dec 15 '21 at 18:48

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This worked great on my Windows 10! Thanks! – Holger Ludvigsen Aug 22 '23 at 19:18

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 02 '19 at 21:47

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You could use wmic command:

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

Drivetype 2 indicates that its a removable disk.

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you have to remove spaces around '=' to get result -> wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=2 get * – N.S Feb 20 '19 at 08:21
You should have in mind, that external Hard Drives have drivetype=3 (local disk) like internal hard drives. Only USB sticks have drivetype=2. – Ruik Mar 10 '21 at 13:22

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 17 '23 at 16:19

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pnputil /enum-devices /connected /class USB

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

answered Feb 17 '23 at 16:19

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Ankit Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-07T09:17:06.223

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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.

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answered Jun 09 '17 at 05:26

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USBview is part of the debug tools for windows. You can see how to get this program here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/usbview – styks Feb 11 '18 at 22:51
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Why is this accepted and -6 without any good comments? – Barnaba Aug 28 '20 at 14:21
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The accepted answer is not a command. Thats why I down voted. – NDEthos Apr 14 '21 at 16:49
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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? – Mahmood Kiaheyrati Oct 16 '21 at 21:58

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