Detecting number of drives

HardySpicer

Some pcs have only the c drive whilst others like mine have c,d,e,f
and z! How do I detect this automatically if I want to search all
drives in a pc? I also want to ignore the DVD and floppy of course.

regards

Hardy

Dec 2 '07 #1

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Lloyd Sheen

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Some pcs have only the c drive whilst others like mine have c,d,e,f
and z! How do I detect this automatically if I want to search all
drives in a pc? I also want to ignore the DVD and floppy of course.

regards

Hardy

Public Shared Function GetDrives() As System.IO.DriveInfo()
Member of: System.IO.DriveInfo
Summary:
Retrieves the drive names of all logical drives on a computer.

Return Values:
An array of type System.IO.DriveInfo that represents the logical drives on a
computer.

Remember that the object browser is your friend.

Hope this helps
Lloyd Sheen

Dec 2 '07 #2

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Lloyd Sheen" <a@b.cschrieb:

>Some pcs have only the c drive whilst others like mine have c,d,e,f
and z! How do I detect this automatically if I want to search all
drives in a pc? I also want to ignore the DVD and floppy of course.

Public Shared Function GetDrives() As System.IO.DriveInfo()
Member of: System.IO.DriveInfo
Summary:
Retrieves the drive names of all logical drives on a computer.

In addition, you can determine the drive type via the 'DriveInfo' object's
'DriveType' property.

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