Month: January 2008

The hotfix for MSKB 916191, “Windows Management Instrumentation queries do not return any information for the Win32_DiskDrive class or for the Win32_DiskPartition class on a Windows XP-based computer”, also fixes the problem described in my previous post about this issue.  See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;916191

 WMI Queries of Win32_DiskDrive for the properties medialoaded and signature are not properly reported for non admin users of Windows XP SP2.  This behavior is not seen in Server 2003, and I have not tested it with Vista.  I have an open SRX with Microsoft for this issue, but expect to have it closed with…