How to get the system drive info?

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Victor

Hi guys
I want to get the system drive info programmatically. like which one is hard
disk, which one is a DVD-Rom. But I don't know how to start. Can you guys
please give me some idea how to get these info.

Cheers
 
Victor said:
I want to get the system drive info programmatically. like which one is
hard disk, which one is a DVD-Rom. But I don't know how to start. Can you
guys please give me some idea how to get these info.
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If you are using .NET 2.0, check out 'System.IO.Drive'.
 
If you want to get this on all drives in the system and you're using VS
2003, you're going to need:
System.Management:

Private Sub GetDriveProperties()
Dim query As ManagementObjectSearcher = New _
ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * From Win32_LogicalDisk ")
Dim queryCollection As ManagementObjectCollection = query.Get()

For Each mo As ManagementObject In queryCollection
Dim pdc As PropertyDataCollection = mo.Properties

' this next line will print to the Console the name of the drive and
its drive type. You can
' deduce from this the types of drive and use those numbers based on
the drives in your system.
' I forget what each drive type number is but you can figure it out.

Console.WriteLine("Name: " & mo("Name").ToString() & ", type: " &
mo.Item("DriveType").ToString())
For Each pd As PropertyData In pdc
Console.WriteLine(pd.Name)
Next
'Console.WriteLine(Integer.Parse(mo("DriveType").ToString()))
Next
End Sub

HTH
Steve
 
Herfried, are you using some special edition of .NET 2.0? I don't even see
that class under System.IO. I see the DriveType enumeration but no Drive
class.

Steve
 
Steve Long said:
Herfried, are you using some special edition of .NET 2.0? I don't even see
that class under System.IO. I see the DriveType enumeration but no Drive
class.
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Sorry, it's called 'DriveInfo'.
 
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