[linuxbox]

hello, what i'm needing to figure out is how to determine the actual drive number like 0, 1, 2 etc etc if i know the drive letter like c, d, or e. is this possible? i have code to get the drive serial knowing the drive number but first i need to have my application figure out which drive number it's installed on!!
thanks!

[m2s87]

linuxbox, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 01:58 PM, said:

hello, what i'm needing to figure out is how to determine the actual drive number like 0, 1, 2 etc etc if i know the drive letter like c, d, or e. is this possible? i have code to get the drive serial knowing the drive number but first i need to have my application figure out which drive number it's installed on!!
thanks!

And my I ask why does your program need to know that? And might you add what basic are you using.

[m2s87]

In VB.net you can use:

		Dim i As Integer = 1
		Dim ImOnDrive As String = "C:\"

		For Each x As System.IO.DriveInfo In My.Computer.FileSystem.Drives
			If ImOnDrive = x.ToString Then MsgBox("I'm on drive: " & i) : Exit For Else i += 1
		Next x

Hope it helped

[linuxbox]

m2s87, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 02:33 PM, said:

linuxbox, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 01:58 PM, said:

hello, what i'm needing to figure out is how to determine the actual drive number like 0, 1, 2 etc etc if i know the drive letter like c, d, or e. is this possible? i have code to get the drive serial knowing the drive number but first i need to have my application figure out which drive number it's installed on!!
thanks!

And my I ask why does your program need to know that? And might you add what basic are you using.

okay, visual basic 6..
the reason is due to the fact i'm letting a local office use a database program for free but i want to limit it to the hard drive it's currently installed on. if i can determine the disk number from the drive letter it's installed on, then i can get the real physical drive serial number, encode it in registry...decode it at runtime and make sure they don't spread it across their network...that's why......

[linuxbox]

m2s87:
have anything like that which would work for
vb6?

[m2s87]

linuxbox, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 03:06 PM, said:

m2s87:
have anything like that which would work for
vb6?

You can use this snippet, it does exactly what you want.

Hope it helped

[linuxbox]

m2s87, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 03:32 PM, said:

linuxbox, on 26 Jan, 2007 - 03:06 PM, said:

m2s87:
have anything like that which would work for
vb6?

You can use this snippet, it does exactly what you want.

Hope it helped

hehe...ACTUALLY it won't because that's the volumeserial. i'm against that!! : ) too easily modified in windows. my code gets the actual physical serial number of the drive as presented on the label on the outside of the drive! but i have to tell my code the drive number (0, 1, 2 etc etc) so it can retrieve the serial!!!

[Mandela7044]

any progress in resolving the drive number ("Drive 0", "Drive 1" or "Datenträger 0", "Datenträger 1") by an driveletter like "C:" "D:"?

i also would neet a solution (VB 6) . thanks