Logical Drive information

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Hi,
After enumerating the logical drives, using GetLogicalDrives, I need to know
the Drive Types, ie. Floppy or Network.

Is it possible in C# to do this? Thanks in advance.

Alwin S.
 
Al said:
After enumerating the logical drives, using GetLogicalDrives, I need to know
the Drive Types, ie. Floppy or Network.

Is it possible in C# to do this? Thanks in advance.
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..NET hasn't any build-in support for getting the drive type.
You can use the Win API function GetDriveType for doing that.

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto, SetLastError=true)]
public static extern uint GetDriveType(string lpRootPathName);

lpRootPathName is the root path of the drive

It returns the following:

public const uint DRIVE_UNKNOWN = 0 // unknow drive type
public const uint DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR = 1 // invalid root path was given
to the function
public const uint DRIVE_REMOVABLE = 2 // removeable drive like a floppy
public const uint DRIVE_FIXED = 3 // a fixed drive like a hard disk
public const uint DRIVE_REMOTE = 4 // a network drive
public const uint DRIVE_CDROM = 5 // a cd-rom drive
public const uint DRIVE_RAMDISK = 6 // a ram disk

Basti
 
Have you tried using WMI? I think the WMI class has this property already
(to save calls to API's).

Picho
 
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