KB176804 - Getdrive.exe: How To List the Drives on a Win32 System

Article ID: 176804

Article Last Modified on 3/11/2005

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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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 files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Getdrive.exe

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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: Getdrive API drives

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