find letter assigned to USB pen drive

[vix]

Hi to all,

I need to programatically find out the letter assigned to a USB pen drive,

after I plug it (in a Win OS)

I've searched, but I haven't find anything useful.

Could you help me, please?

[Mark H]

Hi Vix,

I'm not at all sure there is an easy solution.

If it were just a matter of spotting newly added drives - you might establish a list of existing drive letters on "first run", then check again as needed for newly appeared drive letters - but this would not spot a USB drive that was allready installed at first run, and would probably not be able to differentiate between other removable storage (CDs or floppies) either.

A clumbsy idea I know, but maybe better than nothing (or maybe not).

Mark.

[vix]

The problem is simplier, I think:

I need to know how I can obtain a list of existing drive letters. Also some informations about which kind of device is every letter would be useful, but it's not essential.

Thanks a lot in advance

[alipio]

Hi Vix

There are vis by Mr. Borkowski to do that.

Will post as soon as possible. (Will try this afternoon, my local time)

Cheers

Alipio

[unclebump]

See this thread for a solution by Altenbach. Then base your decision on size of drive.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=114594&requireLogin=False

[alipio]

Here are the vis

Cheers

Alipio