You could use the Shell.Application
COM object's InvokeVerb
method. From a cmd prompt, you can abuse a PowerShell one-liner thusly:
powershell "(new-object -COM Shell.Application).NameSpace(17).ParseName('D:').InvokeVerb('Eject')"
You can also use Windows Scripting Host (VBScript / JScript) to invoke the COM object. Here's an example using a hybrid Batch + Jscript script (save it with a .bat extension):
@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then @echo off setlocal set "CDdrive=D:" cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0" "%CDdrive%" goto :EOF @end // end batch / begin JScript hybrid chimera var oSH = WSH.CreateObject('Shell.Application'); oSH.NameSpace(17).ParseName(WSH.Arguments(0)).InvokeVerb('Eject');
If you prefer to have your script detect the drive letter for the CD drive, that can be arranged as well. Here's a more complete version with comments explaining some of the non-self-explanatory values.
@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then @echo off setlocal cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0" goto :EOF @end // end batch / begin JScript hybrid chimera // DriveType=4 means CD drive for a WScript FSO object. // See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ys4ctaz0%28v=vs.84%29.aspx // NameSpace(17) = ssfDRIVES, or My Computer. // See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774096%28v=vs.85%29.aspx var oSH = new ActiveXObject('Shell.Application'), FSO = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject'), CDdriveType = 4, ssfDRIVES = 17, drives = new Enumerator(FSO.Drives); while (!drives.atEnd()) { var x = drives.item(); if (x.DriveType == CDdriveType) { oSH.NameSpace(ssfDRIVES).ParseName(x.DriveLetter + ':').InvokeVerb('Eject'); while (x.IsReady) WSH.Sleep(50); } drives.moveNext(); }