I want to enumerate all available drive letters (which aren't already taken) in Windows using VC++. How can I do this?

I'm creating a WPF app that among other things should check for the existence of several mapped drives. The code is straightforward: DriveInfo[] systemDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives(); foreach (Driv...

How can I get all the physical drive paths (\\.\PhysicalDriveX) on a Windows computer, with C/C++? The answers in this question suggest getting the logical drive letter, and then getting the physi...

If Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(filePath) is the only way to get icons in .NET && if it doesn't work for Drives and Directories (does it?) then how do you go about getting the icons for them?...

We are telling our client to put a SQL Server database file (mdf), on a different physical drive than the transaction log file (ldf). The tech company (hired by our client) wanted to put the transa...

In my application (Delphi), I need to list all the USB storage devices. These can be either flash memory sticks or external storage drives. There is a Jvcl component JvDriveCombo, and it has the ...

Can anyone tell me how I can get a list of the available disk drives in ruby? I am creating an open file dialogue and need to know! Thanks in advance, ell.

Why is it that advertised disk space is almost always higher than the disk space reported by the UI? For example, I have an "80 gb" hard drive, but the iTunes UI indicates only 74. I usually ...