windows - Refer to/select a drive based only on its label? (i.e., not the drive letter)

Question

I'm trying to refer to a drive whose letter may change. I'd like to refer to it by its label (e.g., MyLabel (v:) within a Batch File. It can be referred to by V: . I'd like to refer to it by MyLabel.

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Answer 1

The previous answers seem either overly complicated, and/or not particularly suited to a batch file.

This simple one liner should place the desired drive letter in variable myDrive. Obviously change "My Label" to your actual label.

for /f %%D in ('wmic volume get DriveLetter^, Label ^| find "My Label"') do set myDrive=%%D

If run from the command line (not in a batch file), then %%D must be changed to %D in both places.

Once the variable is set, you can refer to the drive using %myDrive%. For example

dir %myDrive%someFolder