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Lespaul36
How I can I determine if a drive is a zip drive.
TIA
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Ken Tucker [MVP]
Hi,
The wmi win32_logicaldisk class has information about the drives.
There is no clear zip drive property but take a look at the drive type,
Caption, Description, and PNPDeviceID. Add a reference to system.management
for to use the wmi. Hope this helps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_logicaldisk.asp
Dim moReturn As Management.ManagementObjectCollection
Dim moSearch As Management.ManagementObjectSearcher
Dim mo As Management.ManagementObject
moSearch = New Management.ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from
Win32_LogicalDisk")
moReturn = moSearch.Get
For Each mo In moReturn
Dim strOut As String
strOut = String.Format("Drive {0} - Drive Type {1}", mo("Name"),
mo("DriveType"))
Trace.WriteLine(strOut)
Next
Ken
The wmi win32_logicaldisk class has information about the drives.
There is no clear zip drive property but take a look at the drive type,
Caption, Description, and PNPDeviceID. Add a reference to system.management
for to use the wmi. Hope this helps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_logicaldisk.asp
Dim moReturn As Management.ManagementObjectCollection
Dim moSearch As Management.ManagementObjectSearcher
Dim mo As Management.ManagementObject
moSearch = New Management.ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from
Win32_LogicalDisk")
moReturn = moSearch.Get
For Each mo In moReturn
Dim strOut As String
strOut = String.Format("Drive {0} - Drive Type {1}", mo("Name"),
mo("DriveType"))
Trace.WriteLine(strOut)
Next
Ken
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Lespaul36
I tried that, but it throws an error. I am thinking that mabe it is because
it is an old LPT one.
it is an old LPT one.
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Lespaul36
It isn't really an error from win32_logicaldisk, it was a handling error,
but the response comes back blank for pnpdeviceid. I can find the drive,
but it is a matter of gettng the caption for it. I have it saying
"Removable Drive" from using the FileSystemObject. I found that if I search
through some of the explorer registry keys I can sometimes get the name, but
it is iffy.
It would be nice if I could do it for multiple os versions.
but the response comes back blank for pnpdeviceid. I can find the drive,
but it is a matter of gettng the caption for it. I have it saying
"Removable Drive" from using the FileSystemObject. I found that if I search
through some of the explorer registry keys I can sometimes get the name, but
it is iffy.
It would be nice if I could do it for multiple os versions.