SAMPLE: Getdrive.exe: How To List the Drives on a Win32 System

ID: Q176804

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0

SUMMARY

This code example uses Windows Application Programming Interface (API) functions to return information on the drives installed or mapped to the local computer. These drives include both CD-ROM devices and network hard drives.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

Getdrive.exe

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

MORE INFORMATION

This code example provides information about the drives installed and mapped to a given computer, including CD-ROM drives. The following information about each individual drive appears within a window created by the MessageBox() function:

Drive letter

Drive type

Volume name

Volume

Serial number

Maximum file name length

File system flags

File system name

The program also provides specific physical information about the drive, such as sectors/clusters, bytes/sector, free clusters, and total clusters.

To run the program, type the following command in the Visual FoxPro Command window: DO GetDrive.prg

Additional query words: API drives


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Last Reviewed: August 8, 1999