Determining which Drive is the CD-ROM drive

[Guest]

What is the best way in .NET to determine which drive is the CD-ROM?

 

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

To do this with out doing any interop of your own you could use WMI. The
following example should get you started, it will list the CD/DVD drive
names in the output window.

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher("select Name from Win32_LogicalDisk where
DriveType=5");
foreach(ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(obj["Name"]);
}

Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Thanks Chris.
I also found that this way works using Interop.

// From Winbase.h
public enum DriveType : int
{
Unknown = 0,
NoRoot = 1,
Removable = 2,
Localdisk = 3,
Network = 4,
CD = 5,
RAMDrive = 6
}

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
protected static extern int GetDriveType(string lpRootPathName);

Hi,

To do this with out doing any interop of your own you could use WMI. The
following example should get you started, it will list the CD/DVD drive
names in the output window.

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new
ManagementObjectSearcher("select Name from Win32_LogicalDisk where
DriveType=5");
foreach(ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(obj["Name"]);
}

Hope this helps

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Chris Taylor
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/chris.taylor

What is the best way in .NET to determine which drive is the CD-ROM?