Powershell - Start Process on Different Drive from Batch CMD

Question

Problem: From the CMD or Batchfile, calling powershell and starting a process from a different drive or the -FilePath is failing.

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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 17:17

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You need to quote the path to your executable:

powershell -Command "& { Start-Process -FilePath 'E:\Trunk Monkey\Utilities\SkypePortable\SkypePortable.exe' }"

answered Dec 05 '14 at 17:17

krumel

Excellent. While this was intended to be a KB type question, you provided an answer to my example question. Thanks! – semtex41 Dec 05 '14 at 17:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '14 at 16:52

Solution: Use the following syntax, with Single Quotes Only (double quotes do not work)-

powershell start-process -FilePath 'E:\Trunk Monkey\Utilities\SkypePortable\SkypePortable.exe'

Details: I was having no luck with other parameters, to include...

powershell -Command "& {}

Hopes this helps.

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