Visual Basic 6 - Get Available Drives

This project demostrates how to retrieve all available drives using the following API's and display all of the Information in a Listview.


API's Used

VB Code:

Private Declare Function BringWindowToTop _
    Lib "user32" ( _
        ByVal hwnd As Long) _
        As Long
 
Private Declare Function GetDriveType _
    Lib "kernel32" _
    Alias "GetDriveTypeA" ( _
        ByVal nDrive As String) _
        As Long
 
Private Declare Function GetLogicalDriveStrings _
    Lib "kernel32" _
    Alias "GetLogicalDriveStringsA" ( _
        ByVal nBufferLength As Long, _
        ByVal lpBuffer As String) _
        As Long
        
Private Declare Function GetDiskFreeSpace _
    Lib "kernel32" _
    Alias "GetDiskFreeSpaceA" ( _
        ByVal lpRootPathName As String, _
        lpSectorsPerCluster As Long, _
        lpBytesPerSector As Long, _
        lpNumberOfFreeClusters As Long, _
        lpTotalNumberOfClusters As Long) _
        As Long
 
Private Declare Function GetVolumeInformation _
    Lib "kernel32" _
    Alias "GetVolumeInformationA" ( _
        ByVal lpRootPathName As String, _
        ByVal lpVolumeNameBuffer As String, _
        ByVal nVolumeNameSize As Long, _
        lpVolumeSerialNumber As Long, _
        lpMaximumComponentLength As Long, _
        lpFileSystemFlags As Long, _
        ByVal lpFileSystemNameBuffer As String, _
        ByVal nFileSystemNameSize As Long) _
        As Long

if you have any improvements or suggestions then let me know? I would love to know what you guys think :D.

Regards,

Jenova

Does any body have any suggestions that i can use to make this project better or any feedback on the code?

Regards,

Jenova

Hi,
What if you restrict the read/write access to the drives, by providing a password.

Regards,
Dinesh
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