Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii Guys,
          Got a problem for you ppl.  
I have a drivecombo control..In that control I don't want to show the removable drive(F/D, CD-ROM ,CR-RW Drive) but I Want to show a "PEN DRIVE"..Can you guys give me a suggesstion on how to achieve that. If it can done with any other control, that also will do.  

[Edited by goldenmusketeer on 17-01-2006 at 11:15 PM GMT]

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.....Joy

Hi,
You could use the Scripting FileSystemObject to enumerate the Drives and get their types :-

Sub ShowDriveList     Dim fs, d, dc, s     Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")     Set dc = fs.Drives     For Each d in dc         s = s & d.DriveLetter & " - " & d.DriveType & vbCrLf         Next     MsgBox s End Sub

Drive Types are :-
0 - Unknown - Drive type can't be determined.
1 - Removable - Drive has removable media. This includes all floppy drives and many other varieties of storage devices.
2 - Fixed - Drive has fixed (nonremovable) media. This includes all hard drives, including hard drives that are removable.
3 - Remote - Network drives. This includes drives shared anywhere on a network.
4 - CDROM - Drive is a CD-ROM. No distinction is made between read-only and read/write CD-ROM drives.
5 - RAMDisk - Drive is a block of Random Access Memory (RAM) on the local computer that behaves like a disk drive.

Hope that helps.


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multi-tasking - the ability to hang more than one app. at the same time.

Thanks Geoff,
         but the problem is something else. What you said I already did. But the problem is when I connect a "PEN DRIVE" it 's drivetype =1.So it's very hard to distinguish Floppy & Pen Drive. Again on the other hand if the drive letter is changed, we cannot run a validation on "A:\" as floppy...I can't find a way out to solve this. I mean if I conditionally (based on drivetype) remove the list of removable discs, "PEN DRIVE" is also removed from list.....


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.....Joy

I appreciate that you cannot remove all drives of type "1" from your list, but working on the basis that Drive letters "A" and "B" are reserved for floppy drives you could reasonably assume that any drive type 1 that is not A or B must be a pen drive. I know that we should not really make assumtions, but I believe its a reasonable one under the circumstances.
Of course, this all goes out the window if there is a likelyhood of a tape drive, as this would also show as "1".  


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multi-tasking - the ability to hang more than one app. at the same time.

Hi Guys.
VB Lord - The solution given only displays drive letters and types. To ask again for instance if i had 1 hdd partitioned in two, the code given displays 2 harddrives. What i wanted was the number of PHYSICAL HARDDRIVES connected to system as opposed to LOGICAL DRIVES. in my case it should just list 1 hdd
Thanks

take a look at this code:

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/disk/deviodriveinfo.htm

maybe it can help goldenmusketeer in determinating if a drive is a removable pen drive or not, and will also help mjahkoh in enumerating physical hard disks showing size, type and geometry

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AndreaVB