is there a disk in the floppy drive??

Hi.
I know I'm just full of questions today.

Does anybody know if there is a way to check whether or not there is a floppy disk in the drive without asking for a specific filename??

I'm sure there is...but you can simply ask for A:\ and have some kind of external error handling when windows replys that there is not disk.
Or just goto http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip99.html it has info on checking if a cd is in...so just chnage some values and that should do it..

gl,
D!m

Code:

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On Error Resume Next 'keep going on error
For i = 1 To 2 '2 times is enough
  Open "a:\" For Random As #1 'open the a: drive
        Close #1 'close the a: drive
    Next 'do it again

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Work with that code...it may get you somewhere in life.

Hi.

Thanks both for the help

I wonder if this makes sense:

If there is a floppy disk in A: Then ( Do This)
Else (Do Nothing)


I am trying to figure out how to make this work but I really dont know how to do error handling.

Further patience and suggestions are appreciated.
THanks

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()

If DiskInDrive() Then
  MsgBox "There seems to be a disk in A: drive"
Else
  MsgBox "There doesn't seem to be a disk in A: drive"
End If


End Sub

Function DiskInDrive() As Boolean
On Error GoTo ErrHan
  Dir "a:\", vbDirectory
 
  DiskInDrive = True
Exit Function

ErrHan:
  DiskInDrive = False

End Function

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Try this code at the beginning of the procedure, say on a button click:

Sub CmdButton1_Click()

On error goto BuggerIt

Open "a:\" For Random As #1

BuggerIt :
If err.number = 71 then
MsgBox”no disk in drive A”
End If

End Sub

When you get an error message appear on your screen, it normally has a number (as above no disk in your drive when accessing it, occurs an error 71). At the start, on error goto yourname, says to VB "ok, if you get an error, goto the bottom of the page.

At the bottom, you can use the err.number, to see what error has ocurred and deal with that specifically.

With your project this is handy as whether the error is no disk in drive, or cannot find a file on the disk, you are going to have the same message appear, using the err.number (number of the error) you can separate these.

Alex Read

event code:

Code:

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on error goto errHandler:
 Dir "A:\"

'bla bla
errHandler:
 if error = 52 then
  msgbox "please load your disk in drive a:\"
 endif

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