I'm trying to figure out how to distinguish a CD drive from a DVD drive. I
thought it would be as simple as using WMI, but the properties that would
distinguish between the 2 don't seem to exist (at least on my system).
Win32_LogicalDi sk makes no distinction.
I thought I could with Win32_CDROMDriv e, by using the MaxMediaSize, but that
property doesn't exist.
I then downloaded the MS WMI Tools and used the WMI browser. I can't seem to
find anything that distinguishes the two.
I need to be able to do this without any media in the drives, so checking
for free space won't cut it.
Anyone have any ideas?
Pete 2 4560
Pete,
If you have the Win32_DiskDrive instance, you should be able to get the
Win32_PhysicalM edia instance for it, which represents the physical media
backing the drive (through the Win32_DiskDrive PhysicalMedia mapping).
Once you have that Win32_PhysicalM edia instance, you can look at the
MediaType property to get what kind of drive it is (it will differentiate
between CD, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW, etc, etc).
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
"Pete Davis" <pdavis68@[nospam]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hu******** ************@gi ganews.com... I'm trying to figure out how to distinguish a CD drive from a DVD drive. I thought it would be as simple as using WMI, but the properties that would distinguish between the 2 don't seem to exist (at least on my system).
Win32_LogicalDi sk makes no distinction.
I thought I could with Win32_CDROMDriv e, by using the MaxMediaSize, but that property doesn't exist.
I then downloaded the MS WMI Tools and used the WMI browser. I can't seem to find anything that distinguishes the two.
I need to be able to do this without any media in the drives, so checking for free space won't cut it.
Anyone have any ideas?
Pete
Unfortunately, Win32_PhysicalM edia only gives me one property for all 6
PhysicalDrives that I have: Tag. The Tag is: \\.\PHYSICALDRI VE0, ...
\\.\PHYSICALDRI VE5
Additionally, the DiskDrive devices, oddly enough, don't include my DVD Rom
drives. It has my hard drive, the USB Storage device in my printer, and the
4 actual card slots in the USB storage device.
Don't know why the two DVD drives aren't there.
If I start from Wn32_CDROMDrive , I can get that, and Win32_PnPEntity . But
neither of these appear to distinguish between CD and DVD.
The only way I can see to possibly do it is to take the name or caption and
look for DVD in it, but that doesn't seem to be a very reliable way of doing
it.
Pete
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:e1******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Pete,
If you have the Win32_DiskDrive instance, you should be able to get the Win32_PhysicalM edia instance for it, which represents the physical media backing the drive (through the Win32_DiskDrive PhysicalMedia mapping).
Once you have that Win32_PhysicalM edia instance, you can look at the MediaType property to get what kind of drive it is (it will differentiate between CD, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW, etc, etc).
Hope this helps.
-- - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
"Pete Davis" <pdavis68@[nospam]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hu******** ************@gi ganews.com... I'm trying to figure out how to distinguish a CD drive from a DVD drive. I thought it would be as simple as using WMI, but the properties that would distinguish between the 2 don't seem to exist (at least on my system).
Win32_LogicalDi sk makes no distinction.
I thought I could with Win32_CDROMDriv e, by using the MaxMediaSize, but that property doesn't exist.
I then downloaded the MS WMI Tools and used the WMI browser. I can't seem to find anything that distinguishes the two.
I need to be able to do this without any media in the drives, so checking for free space won't cut it.
Anyone have any ideas?
Pete
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