Oisin (x0n) Grehan wrote a module for PowerShell 2 which uses the WMI ManagementEventWatcher and the new event-handling features of PowerShell 2.0 to automatically run scripts whenever you plug in or unplug a removable drive …. specifically, the AutoMount module runs New-PSDrive whenever you plug in a removable, and Remove-PSDrive when you unplug it.

The bottom line is it works great (at least on Vista), and I think I’ll add it to my “AutoModules” ... sadly, it’s not on PoshCode yet :/ but you should go- check it out, it’s a great example of how to work with events in PowerShell, both consuming and creating them (incidentally, x0n’s PSEventing snapin would let you accomplish this in PowerShell v1). x0n’s posted it on PoshCode, so you can Get-PoshCode 525 if you have the module or script installed, or download it from the embed link below: