How can I obtain the drive letter of my cdrom. I'm trying to write a program that will install multiple programs. I want to put it all on a cdrom, and if I hard-code the drive letter in it will most likely not work on any other computer if the cdrom drive letter is different. So, I need to know how I can obtain the drive letter. Any ideas.....?
OS and compiler?
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I can't think of an OS besides windows that uses drive letters.
<direct.h> has a data structure diskfree_t, and a function getdiskfree() that could be used to 'guess' which is the cdrom. The first parameter of getdiskfree() is the drive to check - 0 is the 'normal' drive and can be ignored. 1 is A:, 2 is B:, and so on. So you would set up a loop to call getdiskfree() on each drive, and then multiply total_clusters * avail_clusters * sectors_per_cluster in the diskfree_t structure, and compare that value with the size of a cdrom disk. It's not foolproof, but as far as I know, there really aren't any other options. Why don't you just prompt the user for the drive letter?
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On windows use GetLogicalDriveStrings() and GetDriveType().
>I can't think of an OS besides windows that uses drive letters.
DOS uses drive letters, and the Windows solution most certainly won't work with DOS. Just because you can't think of an exception doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
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SuSE Linux uses drive letters. I presume other Linux distros do too.Originally Posted by Prelude
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Sorry for not including the OS and Compiler, But I am running Windows XP and using Visual Studio.NET. I guess I could prompt them for a Drive, or instead of making an executable I could do it all in a Batch file.
>I am running Windows XP and using Visual Studio.NET
A GetLogicalDriveStrings/GetDriveType combo is pretty much what you want:
Code:#include <cstdio> using namespace std; char drives[BUFSIZ]; char *p; GetLogicalDriveStrings ( BUFSIZ, drives ); p = drives; printf ( "Your CD-ROM drives are\n" ); while ( *p != '\0' ) { if ( GetDriveType ( p ) == DRIVE_CDROM ) { printf ( "%c\n", *p ); } p = strchr ( p, '\0' ) + 1; }
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