Distinquishing between DVD and CD drives

[chell]

Hello;

I'm trying to identify from visual basic all of the drives install on my system. While GetDriveTypes will identify some drives, it fails to distinquish between DVD and Cd drives and between the various flavors of CD/dvd (CD CDR CDRW) drives. It also does not see Zip drives at all.

Any help would be appreciated...
Michelle

 

[robk54]

Hi Michelle

if you are using w2k or xp the following link should help

http://www.vb2themax.com/NLItem.asp?PageID=NewsletterBank&ID=1040

(page down to tip of the week)

Hope this helps

regards


Rob

 

[chell]

Hello Rob;

Thankyou for your reply. Unfortunately, when I tried it on machine (win2k) it would only return CD-ROM and not CD-R or CD-RW. Sigh...

Thanks again;
Michelle