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Detecting CD ROM is writable or not and to detect whether CD is present or not

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Hello...

I am new to VC++ environment..I am able to detect the CD-ROM drive using GetDriveType API . but this information is not enough for me. I need to know whether the drive is writer or reader. one more thing is i need to know whether CD is present in the drive or not

please help me out

Thanks
poornima
Mar 6 '07 #1
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shinichi81
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Hello...

I am new to VC++ environment..I am able to detect the CD-ROM drive using GetDriveType API . but this information is not enough for me. I need to know whether the drive is writer or reader. one more thing is i need to know whether CD is present in the drive or not

please help me out

Thanks
poornima
I'm not sure but you can try with DeviceIoControl (), this function returns many information relate to device, drives.
To check a disk is in CD drive or not (similar to floppy disk), you can use GetVolumeInform ation().

Hope this help.
Mar 7 '07 #2

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