Task Scheduler action on drive mount

Question

I have a drive that uses TrueCrypt. I have a program installed that uses that drive. If I start the program and the TrueCrypt drive hasn't been mounted, it gets very upset. So, I would like to have a task in the Task Scheduler that starts the program when the drive becomes accessible.

How would I set up the trigger for such a task? Perhaps the trigger would be something like "as soon as D:\ becomes available" or something like that.

Answer 1

You can do it using WMI. Here's a quick and dirty example taken from here: WMI Tasks: Disks and File Systems

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
   & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colMonitoredEvents = objWMIService. _
   ExecNotificationQuery( _
     "Select * from Win32_VolumeChangeEvent")
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Do
   Set objLatestEvent = colMonitoredEvents.NextEvent
   If objLatestEvent.DriveName = "F:" Then
      objShell.Run("""%windir%\system32\notepad.exe""")     
   End If
Loop

Answer 2

You could always write up a batch script to mount the drive, start the program you want, and dismount on close, and use a shortcut in place of all shortcuts for the shortcuts for the program you have installed that uses that drive.