How to get Drive Letter and Name (volume label)

Question

I have a program that tells me all the hard disks/ usb's, but it only tells me the drive letter not the name. Here is what I have:

DriveInfo[] drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
Console.WriteLine("Detected Drives: ");
for(int i = 0; i < drives.Count(); i++)
{
     Console.WriteLine("Drive " + i + ": " + drives[i].Name);
}

return drives;

and this prints:

Drive 0: C:\
Drive 1: E:\

but I want the name such as

Drive 0: C:\ Local disk
Drive 1: E:\ Kingston USB

how do I get this?

Stamper

@Saravana, the linked question doesn't have an accepted answer, also the highest voted one might not be a good suit for OP – Aviation

Answer 1

You are looking for the VolumeLabel property:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.driveinfo.volumelabel.aspx

Example:

Console.WriteLine(drives[i].VolumeLabel);

Jevon

+1. As it answers the question as asked, also most likely it is not what OP is looking for (expected output seem to be looking for physical drive information, partially covered by DriveInfo.DriveType ) – Alric

you can use GetVolumeInformationA() to obtain drive names from drive letters. For examples you can look at this codetwee.blogspot.com/2020/05/… – Squishy

Answer 2

Try this

 try
        {
            DriveInfo[] myDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

            foreach (DriveInfo drive in myDrives)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Drive:" + drive.Name);
                Console.WriteLine("Drive Type:" + drive.DriveType);

                if (drive.IsReady == true)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Vol Label:" + drive.VolumeLabel);
                    Console.WriteLine("File System: " + drive.DriveFormat);

                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {

            throw;
        }

Stellate