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Geekpedia » C# Code » Retrieve a list of disk drives using C#

Retrieve a list of disk drives using C#

This code retrieves a list of drives, stores it into an array of strings, and then loops through it to display the drives.

On Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 08:09 PM

By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)

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// Store the list of drives into an array of string
string[] DriveList = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();
// Loop through the array
for (int i = 0; i < DriveList.Length; i++)
{
    // Show each drive
    MessageBox.Show(DriveList[i]);
}

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Current Comments

by tony on Monday, November 24th 2008 at 01:02 AM

Excellent

by TaToosh on Friday, November 28th 2008 at 03:11 PM

how to get only local hard drives, no cd/dvd or mapped network ones?

by Reelix on Thursday, July 30th 2009 at 02:52 AM

static void Main(string[] args)
{

Console.Title = "Storm Disk Space Mailer.";
// Store the list of drives into an array of string
string[] DriveList = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();
// Loop through the array
for (int i = 0; i < DriveList.Length; i )
{
// Show each drive
getSize(DriveList[i].Replace(":\\", ""));
}
Console.WriteLine("Listing Complete - Press enter to close.");
Console.ReadLine();
}

public static void getSize(string drive)
{
ManagementObject diskSize = new ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" drive ":\"");

diskSize.Get();
double GB = Convert.ToDouble(diskSize["FreeSpace"]);
GB = ((((GB / 1024) / 1024) / 1024));
string GBS = GB.ToString();
try
{
GBS = GBS.Substring(0, (GBS.IndexOf(".") 3));
}
catch
{
// Do Nothing
}
string DriveType = diskSize["DriveType"].ToString();
switch (DriveType)
{
case "0":
DriveType = "Unknown";
break;
case "1":
DriveType = "No Root Directory";
break;
case "2":
DriveType = "Removable Disk";
break;
case "3":
DriveType = "Local Disk";
break;
case "4":
DriveType = "Network Drive";
break;
case "5":
DriveType = "Compact Disc";
break;
case "6":
DriveType = "RAM Disk";
break;
default:
DriveType = "Unknown";
break;
}
if (DriveType == "Compact Disc")
{
Console.WriteLine("Drive: " drive " is a CD/DVD Drive - Skipped...");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Drive: " drive " is a " DriveType " with " GBS.ToString() " GB free space.");
}
}