(03-30-2025, 01:39 PM)Pete Wrote: Maybe shelling this out using Powershell and then parsing the results?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67182306/identify-external-and-internal-hard-drive-in-powershell

Search "MediaType" in that post.

Pete

$Console:Only



Declare Library

  Function GetDriveTypeA& (nDrive As String)

  Function GetLogicalDriveStringsA (ByVal nBuff As Long, lpbuff As String)

End Declare

Declare Dynamic Library "Kernel32"

  Function GetVolumeInformationA (Drive As String, Label As String, ByVal nVol As Long, ByVal Serial As _Offset, ByVal Max As _Offset, ByVal Flags As _Offset, Sys As String, ByVal nSys As Long)

  'Function GetDiskFreeSpaceA (nDrive As String, Byval csectors As _Offset, Byval sbytes As _Offset, Byval cfree As _Offset, Byval ctotal As _Offset)

  Function GetDiskFreeSpaceExA& (ByVal lpDirectoryName As _Offset, ByVal lpFreeBytesAvailableToCaller As _Offset, ByVal lpTotalNumberOfBytes As _Offset, ByVal lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes As _Offset)

End Declare



Type LogicalDiskType

  Letter As String

  DriveType As _Byte

  VolumeName As String

  FileSystem As String

  Serial As String

End Type

Dim Shared LogicalDisk(1000) As LogicalDiskType



Dim As Integer i, LDs

LDs = getDiskInfo

For i = 1 To LDs

  Print Using "## \\"; i; LogicalDisk(i).Letter;

  Print Using "(#) \          \"; LogicalDisk(i).DriveType; LogicalDisk(i).VolumeName;

  Print Using "\      \\      \"; LogicalDisk(i).FileSystem; LogicalDisk(i).Serial

Next i



Function getDiskInfo%

  Dim DList As String, Drive As String, ret As Long, DriveType As Long

  Dim Label As String, Serial As Long, nMax As Long, nFlags As Long, Sys As String

  Dim LDs As Integer

  ret = GetLogicalDriveStringsA(0, DList): If ret = 0 Then Exit Function

  DList = Space$(ret): ret = GetLogicalDriveStringsA(ret, DList): If ret = 0 Then Exit Function

  For n% = 65 To 90

    If InStr(DList, Chr$(n%)) Then

      Drive = Chr$(n%) + ":\" + Chr$(0): DriveType = GetDriveTypeA(Drive)

      Label = Space$(20): Sys = Space$(20)

      ret = GetVolumeInformationA(Drive, Label, Len(Label), _Offset(Serial), _Offset(nMax), _Offset(nFlags), Sys, Len(Sys))

      LDs = LDs + 1 'new one

      LogicalDisk(LDs).VolumeName = Left$(Label, _InStrRev(Label, Chr$(0)) - 1)

      LogicalDisk(LDs).Serial = Hex$(Serial)

      LogicalDisk(LDs).Letter = Left$(Drive, 2)

      LogicalDisk(LDs).DriveType = DriveType '0=unknown,1=NoRoot,2=Removable,3=Local,4=Network,5=CD,6=Ramdisk

      LogicalDisk(LDs).FileSystem = Left$(Sys, _InStrRev(Sys, Chr$(0)) - 1)

    End If

  Next n%

  getDiskInfo% = LDs

End Function