Display Logical drives information of Machine VB.NET

The following code snippets explains how to retrieve the logical drives in the system, information about the logical drives (Drive Name, Drive Type, Available Free Size, Volume Label etc.,)  present in the system.

All we have to do is to reference the namespace System.IO

The System.IODirectory.GetLogicalDrives method is used to get an array of the drive names.  I have displayed them in a ListBox.




' List the drives.

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal _


e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load


For Each drive As String In Directory.GetLogicalDrives()


    lstDrives.Items.Add(drive)


Next drive

End Sub


This code snippet how to retrieve information about each logical drive. The important thing to be noted here that, we have to check whether the device is ready before accessing it's properties, otherwise it will throw the exception "Device is not ready"
'List the Drives Information for each drive

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click



Dim strInfo As String = ""



For Each drive_info As DriveInfo In DriveInfo.GetDrives()


If drive_info.IsReady() Then


' Display information about the selected drive.


strInfo = strInfo & " Device is ready" & vbCrLf


strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Name: " & drive_info.Name.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Type: " & drive_info.DriveType.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Format: " & drive_info.DriveFormat.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Available Free Space: " & drive_info.AvailableFreeSpace().ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Total Free Space: " & drive_info.TotalFreeSpace.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Total Size: " & drive_info.TotalSize.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Volume Label: " & drive_info.VolumeLabel.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Root Directory: " & drive_info.RootDirectory.ToString & Environment.NewLine



Else


' Display information about the selected drive.


strInfo = strInfo & " Device not ready" & vbCrLf


strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Name: " & drive_info.Name.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Type: " & drive_info.DriveType.ToString & Environment.NewLine


'strInfo = strInfo & "Drive Format: " & drive_info.DriveFormat.ToString & Environment.NewLine


'strInfo = strInfo & "Available Free Space: " & drive_info.AvailableFreeSpace().ToString & Environment.NewLine


'strInfo = strInfo & "Total Free Space: " & drive_info.TotalFreeSpace.ToString & Environment.NewLine


'strInfo = strInfo & "Total Size: " & drive_info.TotalSize.ToString & Environment.NewLine


'strInfo = strInfo & "Volume Label: " & drive_info.VolumeLabel.ToString & Environment.NewLine


strInfo = strInfo & "Root Directory: " & drive_info.RootDirectory.ToString & Environment.NewLine


End If


Next drive_info



lblDriveInfo.Text = strInfo 'Displaying the information in the label


End Sub


Finally display the information in the label.