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Drive Object (VB6)

Description

Interrogates the system properties of any drive connected to the current machine, including network drives. The Drive object supports no methods. The RootFolder property returns a Folder object representing a drive's root folder or directory; from this you can obtain a Folders collection object containing the subfolders of the root, and thus gain access to all parts of the drive.

See the File System object model entry for an overview, including the library reference needed to access it.

Createable

No

Returned by

FileSystemObject.Drives.Item property

Properties

All Drive object properties are read-only. In addition, removable media drives must be ready (i.e., have media inserted) for the Drive object to read certain properties.

AvailableSpace

Data Type: Variant

The number of bytes unused on the disk.

DriveLetter

Data Type: String

The drive letter used for this drive on the current machine (e.g., C ).

DriveType

Data Type: DriveType constant

A Drive Type constant (see table) indicating the type of drive. Any remote drive is shown only as remote. For example, a shared CD-ROM or Zip drive that is both remote and removable is shown simply as remote on any machine other than the machine on which it's installed.

Constant	Value
CDROM	4
Fixed	2
RAM Disk	5
Remote	3
Removable	1
Unknown	0

FileSystem

Data Type: String

The installed filesystem; returns FAT, NTFS, or CDFS.

FreeSpace

Data Type: Variant

The number of bytes unused on the disk.

IsReady

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