windows - CMD command to check connected USB devices

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I would like to obtain by a command prompt a list of all USB devices connected to my computer (O.S. Windows 10). I've googled to find such a command, but all results seems useless to me or worse workless. Does anybody know how can I do that?

Thank you

Unfortunately this does not work with mobile devices since they don't mount to be a drive. – kakyo Sep 3, 2019 at 5:21

With powershell, you can use the command :

Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -match '^USB' }
a simple short to use powershell from cmd and get result :
powershell "Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -match '^USB' }"
You could use wmic command:
wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=2 get <DeviceID, VolumeName, Description, ...>
Drivetype 2 indicates that its a removable disk.
                you have to remove spaces around  '=' to get result -> wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=2 get *
– N.S
                Feb 20, 2019 at 8:21
                You should have in mind, that external Hard Drives have drivetype=3 (local disk) like internal hard drives. Only USB sticks have drivetype=2.
– Ruik
                Mar 10, 2021 at 13:22
                USBview is part of the debug tools for windows. You can see how to get this program here. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/…
– styks
                Feb 11, 2018 at 22:51
                if the accepted answer is not something that was wanted in the first place, then it means that the question was somewhat asked  incorrectly. So i think it's better to down vote the question either. because it wanted a command but accepted a software recommendation as the answer! so the question was not asked correctly at the first place, right?
– Mahmood Kiaheyrati
                Oct 16, 2021 at 21:58
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