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The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is Incorrect
In this post, we’ve a simple PowerShell script to require users to enter the full path of an ISO image, then mount it using Mount-DiskImage cmdlet.
$imagePath = Read-Host "Enter the ISO path"
Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePathUser inserts the file path by right clicking the iso file and select copy as path and pasting into the prompt. Looks like this: “D:\images\Win11.iso”. Then we got the below error.
Enter the ISO path: “D:\images\Win11.iso”
Mount-DiskImage : The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
At D:\quotes.ps1:2 char:1
+ Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePath
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (MSFT_DiskImage:ROOT/Microsoft/…/MSFT_DiskImage) [Mount-DiskImage], CimE
xception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x8007007b,Mount-DiskImage
This seems to be being caused by the quotes around the path. PowerShell treating the quote as part of the path rather than just a quote.
PS C:\> $imagePath
"D:\images\Win11.iso"If we add the path without quotes, it will work just fine. Here is how it is captured:
PS C:\> $imagePath = Read-Host "Enter the ISO path"
Enter the ISO path: D:\images\Win11.iso
PS C:\> Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePath
Attached : True
BlockSize : 0
DevicePath : \\.\CDROM0
FileSize : 5557432320
ImagePath : D:\images\Win11.iso
LogicalSectorSize : 2048
Number : 0
Size : 5557432320
StorageType : 1
PSComputerName :Read-Host treats the variable type a string, so you are adding the quotes as part of your entry to Read-Host will lead the issue. To fix it, you can replace the quotations in your path so that Mount-DiskImage sees it without quotes. See below example.
$imagePath = Read-Host "Enter the ISO path"
$imagePath = $imagePath.trim('"')
Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePathAs you can see, this time even we’ve entered the file path with the double quotes. The script works without any error and the image file has been mounted as a virtual disk.
PS C:\> $imagePath = Read-Host "Enter the ISO path"
Enter the ISO path: "D:\images\Win11.iso"
PS C:\> $imagePath = $imagePath.trim('"')
PS C:\> Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePath
Attached : True
BlockSize : 0
DevicePath : \\.\CDROM0
FileSize : 5557432320
ImagePath : D:\images\Win11.iso
LogicalSectorSize : 2048
Number : 0
Size : 5557432320
StorageType : 1
PSComputerName :Alternatively, you can use the below method to remove the double quotes from the user’s input strings. This method use Replace instead of Trim to remove the double quote.
$imagePath = Read-Host "Enter the ISO path"
$imagePath = $imagePath.Replace('"', '')
Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath $imagePathConclusion
When running a PowerShell script requires user input:
- Educate users enter input without the double quotes.
- Or you can edit your codes to remove the doube quotes, then you don’t need to care about user imput with or without double quotes.
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