by Yuening Dai (30 Submissions)
Category: Miscellaneous
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sat 9th January 1999
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Use FileSystemObject to Get Info about a Drive
VBcoders
'Put a ListBox on your form and run the code.
'FileSystecmObject is very powerful in dealing with file system.
'See VB help for more detailed info.
Private Sub cmdInfo_Click()
'
Dim fldr As Folder
Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
Dim drv As Drive
'
Set drv = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName("C:"))
'
With List1
.AddItem "Available space: " & FormatNumber(drv.AvailableSpace / 1024, 0) & " BK"
.AddItem "Drive letter: " & drv.DriveLetter
.AddItem "Drive type: " & drv.DriveType
.AddItem "Drive file system: " & drv.FileSystem
.AddItem "Drive free space: " & FormatNumber(drv.FreeSpace / 1024, 0) & " BK"
.AddItem "Drive is ready: " & drv.IsReady
.AddItem "Drive path: " & drv.Path
.AddItem "Root folder: " & drv.RootFolder
.AddItem "Serial number: " & drv.SerialNumber
.AddItem "Share name: " & drv.ShareName
.AddItem "Total size: " & FormatNumber(drv.TotalSize / 1024, 0) & " BK"
.AddItem "Volume name : " & drv.VolumeName
End With
'
End Sub
