Getting a list of logical drives.

How can I get the list of logial drives (C#) on a system as well as their capacity and free space?

From stackoverflow

• System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives()

  Eoin Campbell : Is this something new that was added in the latest version of .NET. I wrote a small app to display this years ago but had to go the WMI route at the time. Very handy to know anyway... cheers

  PaulB : Perfect ... thank you

  Richard : Quick look on MSDN: was added in .NET 2.0.

• You can retrieve this information with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

   using System.Management;
  
      ManagementObjectSearcher mosDisks = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");
      // Loop through each object (disk) retrieved by WMI
      foreach (ManagementObject moDisk in mosDisks.Get())
      {
          // Add the HDD to the list (use the Model field as the item's caption)
          Console.WriteLine(moDisk["Model"].ToString());
      }
  

  Theres more info here about the attribute you can poll

  http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial233_Getting-Disk-Drive-Information-using-WMI-and-Csharp.html

• Directory.GetLogicalDrives

  Their example has more robust, but here's the crux of it

              string[] drives = System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives();
  
              foreach (string str in drives) 
              {
                  System.Console.WriteLine(str);
              }
  

  You could also P/Invoke and call the win32 function (or use it if you're in unmanaged code).

  That only gets a list of the drives however, for information about each one, you would want to use GetDrives as Chris Ballance demonstrates.

• DriveInfo[] drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
  
  foreach (DriveInfo drive in drives)
  {
  double fspc = 0.0;
  double tspc = 0.0;
  double percent = 0.0;
  
  fspc = drive.TotalFreeSpace;
  tspc = drive.TotalSize;
  percent = (fspc / tspc)*100;
  float num = (float)percent;
  
  Console.WriteLine("Drive:{0} With {1} % free", drive.Name,num);
  Console.WriteLine("Space Reamining:{0}", drive.AvailableFreeSpace);
  Console.WriteLine("Percent Free Space:{0}",percent);
  Console.WriteLine("Space used:{0}", drive.TotalSize);
  Console.WriteLine("Type: {0}", drive.DriveType);
  }