Subject: Re: Detecting CD-ROM drive
From: [email-masked] (Larry Hall)

30 Oct 1997 07:21:35 -0800
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To: Arlindo da Silva <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

At 10:38 PM 10/29/97 -0500, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
>
>Does anybody know how to determine which drive (d:, e:, ...) is a CDROM? 
>Is there any native function for this? Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Arlindo da Silva    
>[email-masked]

You can use GetDriveType().  Here's some info on it from the MSDN Library.

The GetDriveType function determines whether a disk drive is a removable,
fixed, CD-ROM, RAM disk, or network drive. 
UINT GetDriveType(
    LPCTSTR lpRootPathName 	// address of root path 
   );	
 
Parameters
lpRootPathName
Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the root directory of the
disk to return information about. If lpRootPathName is NULL, the function
uses the root of the current directory. 
 
Return Values
The return value specifies the type of drive. It can be one of the following
values: 
Value	Meaning
0	The drive type cannot be determined.
1	The root directory does not exist.
DRIVE_REMOVABLE	The drive can be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_FIXED	The disk cannot be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_REMOTE	The drive is a remote (network) drive.
DRIVE_CDROM	The drive is a CD-ROM drive.
DRIVE_RAMDISK	The drive is a RAM disk.
 
See Also
GetDiskFreeSpace 

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