How do I enumerate the drives on my hosting machine?

Very simply. The APIs you need are GetLogicalDriveStrings and GetDriveType. The code below is a command line program which enumerates all the drives on the host machine and lists them together with their types.


#include "windows.h"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
TCHAR atchDrives [150];
TCHAR atchResult [50];
TCHAR * ptchDrive = NULL;

if (GetLogicalDriveStrings (sizeof(atchDrives), atchDrives))
{
if (strlen (atchDrives) > 0)
{
ptchDrive = atchDrives;
do
{
switch (GetDriveType (ptchDrive))
{
case DRIVE_UNKNOWN:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : Unknown type", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : No root directory", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_REMOVABLE:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : Removable", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_FIXED:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : Hard Disk", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_REMOTE:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : Remote (network) drive", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_CDROM:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : CD/DVD", ptchDrive);
break;
case DRIVE_RAMDISK:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : RAMDrive", ptchDrive);
break;
default:
wsprintf (atchResult, "%s : ERROR", ptchDrive);
break;
}
printf (atchResult);
printf ("\n");

do ++ptchDrive;
while (*ptchDrive);
++ptchDrive;

} while (strlen (ptchDrive));
}
}
return 0;
}

Author : Bob Moore