How to query the value of %SystemDrive% in an empty environment?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 6 15:53:00 GMT 2019


On Aug  6 09:47, Bill Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 9:42 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > On Aug  6 17:20, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > Now what I've failed to find is how to query the value for the "SystemDrive"
> > > environment variable.
> >
> > Just strip it off SYSTEMROOT?
> 
> IIRC, that will not give the expected value if Windows is installed on
> a different drive.

How so?  SYSTEMDRIVE is the drive SYSTEMROOT is installed on, no?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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