DriveInfo Class |
Provides access to information on a local or remote drive.
Inheritance HierarchyNamespace: Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem
Assembly: AlphaFS (in AlphaFS.dll) Version: 2.0
SyntaxThe DriveInfo type exposes the following members.
ConstructorsProperties| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | AvailableFreeSpace | Indicates the amount of available free space on a drive. |
| DiskSpaceInfo | [AlphaFS] Returns the instance. |
| DosDeviceName | [AlphaFS] The MS-DOS device name. |
| DriveFormat | Gets the name of the file system, such as NTFS or FAT32. |
| DriveType | Gets the drive type. |
| IsDosDeviceSubstitute | [AlphaFS] Indicates if this drive is a SUBST.EXE / DefineDosDevice drive mapping. |
| IsReady | Gets a value indicating whether a drive is ready. |
| IsUnc | [AlphaFS] Indicates if this drive is a UNC path. |
| IsVolume | [AlphaFS] Determines whether the specified volume name is a defined volume on the current computer. |
| Name | Gets the name of the drive. |
| RootDirectory | Gets the root directory of a drive. |
| TotalFreeSpace | Gets the total amount of free space available on a drive. |
| TotalSize | Gets the total size of storage space on a drive. |
| VolumeInfo | [AlphaFS] Contains information about a file-system volume. |
| VolumeLabel | Gets or sets the volume label of a drive. |
Methods| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | EnumerateDrives | [AlphaFS] Enumerates the drive names of all logical drives on a computer. |
| Equals | (Inherited from Object.) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetDrives | Retrieves the drive names of all logical drives on a computer. |
| GetFreeDriveLetter | [AlphaFS] Gets the first available drive letter on the local system. |
| GetFreeDriveLetter(Boolean) | Gets an available drive letter on the local system. |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a drive name as a string. (Overrides ObjectToString.) |
Remarks
This class models a drive and provides methods and properties to query for drive information.
Use DriveInfo to determine what drives are available, and what type of drives they are.
You can also query to determine the capacity and available free space on the drive.
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