Question re Get-PhysicalDisk

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Hello

I am trying to show healthy physical disks using one of the following

Get-PhysicalDisk select Status -eg healthy
Get-PhysicalDisk select status -HealthStatus
Get-PhysicalDisk select status -healthy

but I am getting parameter errors in ISE.

Should I not be using Select?

Thank you.

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Hi Steve,

To filter (only show) healthy disks you’ll need to use the Where-Object cmdlet (Where) instead of Select-Object (Select).

# PowerShell v3.0 and later
Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object Status -eq 'Healthy'
Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object { $PSItem.Status -eq 'Healthy' }

# PowerShell v1.0 and later
Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object { $_.Status -eq 'Healthy' }

The purpose of Where-Object is to filter objects passing through the pipeline. Select-Object can be used to select properties of objects passing through the pipeline.

Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object Status -eq 'Healthy' | Select-Object -Property FriendlyName, Status, Size

I think it would be best for you to invest your time and to go through the PowerShell Jumpstart on the Microsoft Virtual Academy.

I hope above helps.

All the Best,
Daniel

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Thank you, Daniel

In PS5 using

Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object Status -eq 'Healthy'

I now get no errors.

Thank you too, for the link. I will browse there now!

Steve

Not sure how I thank you here?

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Just writing a comment saying “Thank you” as you did is enough here.

Depending on your mode of learning the book “Learn PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches” is very good and highly recommended, and a great investment. The book is completely applicable to v4 and v5 because these versions only added advanced concepts which wouldn’t have been covered in the book anyway.

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Thanks again, I will have a search!