list of physical disks

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Hi all

How do I get the list of all physical disks attached to my computer, similar
to what is displayed under Disk drives in Device Manager:

0: MAXTOR 6L040j2
1: ST3802110a

Thank you

[Alberto Poblacion]

"Alex K." <Al***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote in message
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How do I get the list of all physical disks attached to my computer,
similar
to what is displayed under Disk drives in Device Manager:

0: MAXTOR 6L040j2
1: ST3802110a

You can use WMI. See this project:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/har..._serialno.aspx

Or you can use the DeviceIoControl API. You can get some inspiration at
the following link:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/DriveInfoEx.aspx

[Joe Cool]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:26:41 -0700, Alex K.
<Al***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:

>Hi all

How do I get the list of all physical disks attached to my computer, similar
to what is displayed under Disk drives in Device Manager:

0: MAXTOR 6L040j2
1: ST3802110a

Thank you

You may want to consider:

DriveInfo[] colDrives = DriveInfo.GetDr ives();
DriveInfo diDrive;

foreach (DriveInfo di in colDrives)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(di.Name);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.DriveType );
Console.WriteLi ne(di.DriveForm at);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.Available FreeSpace);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.VolumeLab el);
Console.WriteLi ne("");
}
Console.ReadKey ();

Unfortunately, you cannot get the Drive Manufacturer and Model.

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Joe,

GetDrives gives list of logical drives, not physical disks. E.g. if you have
5 partitions on a single disk GetDrives will give you 5 DriveInfo items. I
need a list of physical disks -- same as in Device Manager | Disk drives
subtree.

Thank you

"Joe Cool" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:26:41 -0700, Alex K.
<Al***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:

Hi all

How do I get the list of all physical disks attached to my computer, similar
to what is displayed under Disk drives in Device Manager:

0: MAXTOR 6L040j2
1: ST3802110a

Thank you

You may want to consider:

DriveInfo[] colDrives = DriveInfo.GetDr ives();
DriveInfo diDrive;

foreach (DriveInfo di in colDrives)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(di.Name);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.DriveType );
Console.WriteLi ne(di.DriveForm at);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.Available FreeSpace);
Console.WriteLi ne(di.VolumeLab el);
Console.WriteLi ne("");
}
Console.ReadKey ();

Unfortunately, you cannot get the Drive Manufacturer and Model.

[Steffen Hoppe]

Hi all,

you should use the Windows Management Interface (WMI). I know, it is only
a VB Page, but have a look here:
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-S...sual-BasicNET/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...32(VS.85).aspx

The available properties are quite numerous.

Cheers,
Steffen

Joe,

GetDrives gives list of logical drives, not physical disks. E.g. if
you have 5 partitions on a single disk GetDrives will give you 5
DriveInfo items. I need a list of physical disks -- same as in Device
Manager | Disk drives subtree.

Thank you

"Joe Cool" wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:26:41 -0700, Alex K.
<Al***@discuss ions.microsoft. comwrote:

>>Hi all

How do I get the list of all physical disks attached to my computer,
similar to what is displayed under Disk drives in Device Manager:

0: MAXTOR 6L040j2
1: ST3802110a
Thank you

You may want to consider:

DriveInfo[] colDrives = DriveInfo.GetDr ives();
DriveInfo diDrive;
foreach (DriveInfo di in colDrives)
{
Console.WriteL ine(di.Name);
Console.WriteL ine(di.DriveTyp e);
Console.WriteL ine(di.DriveFor mat);
Console.WriteL ine(di.Availabl eFreeSpace);
Console.WriteL ine(di.VolumeLa bel);
Console.WriteL ine("");
}
Console.ReadKe y();
Unfortunatel y, you cannot get the Drive Manufacturer and Model.

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Alex K. wrote:

GetDrives gives list of logical drives, not physical disks. E.g. if you have
5 partitions on a single disk GetDrives will give you 5 DriveInfo items. I
need a list of physical disks -- same as in Device Manager | Disk drives
subtree.

Try and see what this prints:

WqlObjectQuery q = new WqlObjectQuery( "SELECT * FROM
Win32_DiskDrive ");
ManagementObjec tSearcher res = new ManagementObjec tSearcher(q);
foreach (ManagementObje ct o in res.Get()) {
Console.WriteLi ne("Caption = " + o["Caption"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("DeviceID = " + o["DeviceID"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("Decsriptio n = " + o["Descriptio n"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("Manufacture r = " + o["Manufactur er"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("MediaType = " + o["MediaType"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("Model = " + o["Model"]);
Console.WriteLi ne("Name = " + o["Name"]);
// only Vista & 2008: //Console.WriteLi ne("SerialNumbe r = "
+ o["SerialNumb er"]);
}

Arne