I have seen examples of enumerating through the available drives on a computer to obtain information about the drives.
But how do you change the volume label of a specific drive?
I know how to obtain the label of all drives connected to the computer running my application. But what about those which are shared and I have access to, but which are connected through a server? How do I get their volume labels? I need this because I am tracking files, and don't want to have multiple file entries for a single file which can happen if disks are moved around servers. I want my only assumption to be that the labels on each disk are different.
View 2 RepliesWe are trying to rename a volume label on a thumb drive using a visual basic program, but the operation doesn't work. We are not getting any error messages, it just doesn't work. The user account being used does not have any special privileges. I suspect the user may have to be an administrator, but that is not an option. Any ideas on how to accomplish without elevating the users privileges?
View 2 RepliesI want my program to find the disk drive. I just do not know how to find it programmically? Can anyone help, please? This should be pretty easy, right?
View 12 RepliesI am trying to get the HDD Disk Drive information from the DeviceIOControl(,,,,,) function with IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT_EX control code.
Here are the problems :
1. The DeviceIOControl function returns(as from output buffer) DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX structure. Which contains some data types i am unable to get. I used. Uint32 instead of Dword. Long instead of Large_Integer.
2. DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX structure contains a union declaration as mentioned on MSDN , HOW TO GET A UNION in VB.NET or vb 6.
3. Still when i tried declaring the data types as mentioned earlier gives an error (Value does not fall within the expected range.) executing the DeviceIOControl Method.
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i'm trying to list out the what to pick when using the perfmon counter, physical disk. when you look at it in perfmon, it shows for example, 0 C:, 1 D:. I see how to get the drive letters avaliable on the sytem.. how in vb.net to get the disk id. i want to get a listing of all the hard drives on the system, both their ID and the drive letter.
View 7 RepliesI am trying to build an autorun application for windows 7 and I need to retrieve a drive's VOLUME serial number (the one that changes when you format it)
View 4 RepliesI am trying to get the HDD Disk Drive information from the DeviceIOControl function with IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT_EX control code.
Here are the problems :1. The DeviceIOControl function returns(as from output buffer) DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX structure. Which contains some data types i am unable to get.
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If there is no floppy disk in the drive, i need the user to be informed, because when it comes to the loop
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I'm developing a system info application. I've Searched all over internet and only found code for Free Hard Disk space, but not Total hard disk space.
The code should calculate the Total space of all the drives.
Iam trying to copy file to floppy disk rather than to hard drive. I try to use the code that I used in VB6 but there are so many errors. I gave up. Are any simple code the would do it? New C# Programmer
View 2 RepliesI am new to VB and playing with a program to display disk info attached to my PC. I have used WIN32_DiskDrive & WIN32_LogicalDisk to gather info regarding volumes, disks and partitions.
What I want to find how is how to relate the Device Index and Partition # back to a volume (ie with a drive letter).
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i want to knw the locetion of my file in the disk drive.....
I have a program that must copy a file to 3 locations, the local hard disk, a USB drive, and a network location. I have the file (about 70mb) loaded into a byte array. My quesion is, since I'm not actively modifying the byte array, can I impliment a form of multithreading where all 3 threads read the same byte array at the same time?
View 1 RepliesI am working on a win application that maps/unmaps network drives. And i have a couple of problems getting and setting a mapped network drive's label /name. The driveinfo volumelabel property will get or set the label of the remote drive/folder, what i need is the mapped network drive name/label on the local system. it then adds the driveletter, volumelabel, and connection state to a listview.
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As you see some months ago i use count property in one of my code
But now when i use driveinfo.getdrive.count it doesn't have it?
I use the following code to look at the first 10 drives, list them in a listbox, and display each drive size when the listbox item is clicked.The issue I'm having is that "my computer" tells me my USB drive is "L" and my DVD drive is "E" but when I run my project, the USB seems to be listed as "E" and the DVD drive is something else.
I try to write a file to the selected drive - the USB drive in my list "E", it gives the device is not ready error, like I'm trying to write to the DVD drive with no DVD in the drive.
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I'm running the following WMI script to get the associations between drive letters and physical drives on the system, but for some reason it omits CDROMs/DVD-ROMs. Can someone tell me how to get those as well?
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ComputerName = "."
Set wmiServices = GetObject _
("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!//" & ComputerName)
Set wmiDiskDrives = wmiServices.ExecQuery _
("SELECT DeviceID FROM Win32_DiskDrive")
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I have a program that allows the user to enter a drive letter into a text box. The program then takes the letter and find the physical drive number (i.e. deviceharddisk3..). It then stripes out everything and leaves me with the number 3.
In VB6 I used mDrive.bas from vbAccelerator.com and it worked perfectly. I have been all over the internet and back and cannot find a solution written in VB.NET.
I want to make a tool that will assign a USB pen drive a drive letter, I am using WMI to acknowledge the device being plugged in, I can pull the deviceID, name, etc now I just need to work out how to assign the device to a drive and I just cant figure it out
View 4 RepliesThe drive is connected via USB and the problem I'm having is that, periodically, while my code is executing, the usb drive seems to disconnect and reconnect. (Nothing to do with the program, but the drive itself).I want to find a way to prevent these temporary drive reconnects from interrupting my code. IE, i want to insure that whatever read or write that is requested is actually executed even in the case of a temporary drive interruption.
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know if there is a way to determine if a drive is local or a network drive?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to get the physical drive (device) number from the drive letter. If the user inputs the drive letter C the program will find the associated physical device number. For example if I input C then the result needs to be \Device\HardDrive1\... Some call it NT Device Name; I think. I have the code for VB6 from vbAccelerator, which works perfectly, but it does not work in VB.NET. My question is there a simple way of pulling the drive info that contains the drive letter and the physical device number. I have searched the internet and found nothing for VB.NET. I would post code but I have nothing for .NET.
View 1 RepliesUSB flash drive or pen drive in vb.net...
View 14 RepliesI have a program I am converting from VB6 to VB.NET and I am stuck at the very last piece of code. I need to determine what physical device number is associated with the drive letter.
The program takes the drive letter from a text box and goes and finds the device number (i.e. deviceharddrive3...) and strips out everything leaving me with the devicer number; in this case the number 3. I have searched the internet to and fro and found nothing in VB.NET.
My program in VB6 uses a .bas module from vbaccelerator.com called mDrive.bas and works great. I can't figure out how to convert it over to VB.NET.
First off a short background of the project I am working on- I am developing a program that will be run off removable media (i.e. USB Flash drive). This will be a �virtual desktop� which you will be able to take with you and have the same �desktop� on any system. As we know drive letters can change with each host system the drive is plugged into, I need to be able to determine the path for the flash drive and access a specific folder ( i.e. My Documents)
I have an picture box(representing the icon) placed on my form (form1) and when I click the icon I want to be able to open and view the a specific folder from the portable drive. I need a click event that will determine a dynamic drive letter for a directory on the removable drive and then open that directory in an explorer window.
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I am using the following code to get a list of the letters for each drive on my computer. I want to get the drive letter of CD Drive from this list. The code I am using to get list is as below:
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Is it possible to check if a Logical device gathered through a WMI search request is a CD/DVD Drive? Right now, I can get the path of every Win32_LogicalDisk through WMI, but E: (for me) is my DVD drive and unless there is a disc, my program fails because it tries to count the number of folders/files on the disc.
Ultimately, I'd like to be able to tell if it is a CD/DVD drive then check to see if there is a disc there before I do anything else to it. Can it be done using WMI?
I have a function that copies files from a CD to my HDD:CopyFiles(CD_Drive, FullPath & "")
The problem is that the Drive letter "I:" is not consistent. Sometimes when I connect and disconnect external devices, the CD Drive letter changes and then my code doesn't work unless I open the project, change the letter "I" and recompile.What code can I use that will ALWAYS detect my CD Drive, regardless of the drive letter? (Like for instance, NERO will detect and burn CDs regardless of the drive letter)
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how to open an .exe file from a that is in a certain file, what i am trying to do is create a program that will be portable-via jump drive or cd drive, the reason i feel stupid is that I did not realize that visual basic and vb.net are two different animals- I was trying to use app.path for days- then came across a post that set me straight that I can not use it.[code]
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