finding drives

[jverkoey]

how can i find out all of the drives that a user has, in C++, without using any API's (i mean without having to use a win32 text box or something....)

searched msdn, but didn't find much

[Scarlet7]

You could try something like this.

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   char drive[] = "c:";
   char i;
   UINT rc;

   for(i='c'; i <= 'z'; i++)
   {
	   drive[0] = i;
	   rc = GetDriveType( drive );

	   switch(rc)
	   {
	   case DRIVE_UNKNOWN:
		   break;
  	   case DRIVE_FIXED:
		   printf("%s   - FIXED\n", drive);
		   break;
  	   case DRIVE_REMOTE:
		   break;   
  	   case DRIVE_CDROM:
		   printf("%s   - CDROM\n", drive);
		   break;
  	   case DRIVE_RAMDISK:
		   break;   
  	   case DRIVE_REMOVABLE:
		   break;
	   }
   }
   return 0;
}

[Codeplug]

GetLogicalDrives()

You can get additional info on the drive with GetVolumeInformation() along with GetDriveType().

gg