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WFA Powershell Error - Drive not found

Rasik_Patel — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:44:59 GMT

While running ps.cmd from WFA windows server we see error "Get-Item: Cannot find drive. "

ps.cmd contains,

@rem opens a powershell prompt with WFA's commandlets loaded
@PowerShell.exe -NoExit -ExecutionPolicy remotesigned -Command "& {cd (((Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NA_WFA_SRV).ImagePath.Split(" ")[0]).Directory.fullname)); ../PoSH/profile.ps1; ((Get-Host).UI.RawUI).WindowTitle = 'WFA PS'; clear}"

profile.ps1 contains,

$ModulesDir = split-path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
Import-Module $ModulesDir\Modules\WFA
Import-Module $ModulesDir\Modules\WFAWrapper
Import-Module $ModulesDir\Modules\DataONTAP

Executing Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NA_WFA_SRV seems to be good.

PSPath         : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NA_WFA_SRV
PSParentPath    : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
PSChildName     : NA_WFA_SRV
PSDrive           : HKLM
PSProvider       : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry
Type           : 16
Start             : 2
ErrorControl : 1
ImagePath        : "E:\Program Files\NetApp\WFA/bin/NA_WFA_SRV.exe" //RS//NA_WFA_SRV
DisplayName     : NetApp WFA Server
DependOnService : {NA_WFA_DB, Tcpip, Afd}
ObjectName      : LocalSystem
Description    : NetApp WFA Application Server running JBoss AS7

Kindly find the error screenshot atttached.

Re: WFA Powershell Error - Drive not found

sinhaa — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:21:16 GMT

You must be using an old version of WFA, WFA2.1 or older. This is a bug in the WFA2.1 and below versions.

Replace the ps.cmd contents with the below code:

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@rem opens a powershell prompt with WFA's commandlets loaded
@PowerShell.exe -NoExit -ExecutionPolicy remotesigned -Command "& {cd (Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NA_WFA_SRV).ImagePath.substring(1, $(Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NA_WFA_SRV).ImagePath.length -34); ../PoSH/profile.ps1; ((Get-Host).UI.RawUI).WindowTitle = 'WFA PS'; clear}"

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Save the file and now launch ps.cmd.

sinhaa

Re: WFA Powershell Error - Drive not found

Rasik_Patel — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:45:02 GMT

Hi Sinhaa,

Thanks for your recommendations. We made changes to ps.cmd as per your recommendation. It worked, but was not able to run WFA commands eg: " show-WFAConfig -name TransactionTimeout".

It seems like modules are not loaded. Will be cheking it during our next scheduled.

Kindly find the attached error.

Regards,

Rasik

Re: WFA Powershell Error - Drive not found

sinhaa — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:09:32 GMT

I already told that you are using a very old version of WFA. I gave you the fix for that. But the cmdlet Show-WfaConfig is not available with that version. Show-WfaConfig is only available from WFA3.0 and above.

WIth WFA 3.0 and above the original issue of ps.cmd failing will also not be seen.