How to change a drive letter with system.management

[Ben Reese]

Kind people on this discussion group have previously helped me to dynamically
identify CD rom drives etc at runtime using objects in System.management

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Dim query As New System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * From
Win32_LogicalDisk")
Dim queryCollection As System.Management.ManagementObjectCollection =
query.Get()

For Each mo As System.Management.ManagementObject In queryCollection
Select Case Integer.Parse(mo("DriveType").ToString())

Case 2 'removable drives

Case 3 'Local drives
MsgBox("Logical Drive " & mo("DeviceID").ToString)

Case 4 'Network drives
MsgBox("Network Drive " & mo("DeviceID").ToString)

Case 5 'CD rom drives

MsgBox("CD Rom Drive " & mo("DeviceID").ToString)

End Select
Next
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Can I use these objects to change the drive letter of one of these logical
drives

ie in the routine above
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Case 3 'Local drives
MsgBox("Logical Drive " & mo("DeviceID").ToString)

If mo("DeviceID").ToString = "S:" Then
mo.SetPropertyValue("DeviceID", "T:")
MsgBox("local Drive" & mo("DeviceID").ToString)
End If
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The deviceID is changed in the ManagementObject at runtime but this does not
manifest itself as a change in the drive letter.

I would also like to be able to create and destroy mapped network drives on
the fly.

the objects in the system.management namspace seem to me to be very abstract
and non-intuitive to use. I would be interesed in understanding them better.
So if anyone has a tutorial on this subject that starts at a suitably newbie
level for my simple brain to understand then I would be gratefull.

Much thanks

Ben