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Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:40 am
by Dude
I've been using the following code perfectly for years with Windows XP and 7, but I just found out that it doesn't return a disk drive volume name for Windows 10 (based on a screenshot I saw of my app, not from personal experience). Can someone with Windows 10 please confirm? Thank you.
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d$="C:\"
drivename$=Space(999)
driveserial$=Space(999)
drivefs$=Space(999)
GetVolumeInformation_(d$,@drivename$,990,@serial,0,0,@drivefs$,990)
s$=Hex(serial,#PB_Long) : driveserial$=Left(s$,4)+"-"+Right(s$,4)
Debug drivename$ ; Shows empty string on Windows 10. :(
Debug driveserial$
Debug drivefs$
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:49 am
by Thunder93
Confirmed.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:51 am
by Dude
Dammit.
Thanks.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:52 am
by Thunder93
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:56 am
by Dude
Thanks Thunder93!
[Edit] I seriously think I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade to Win 10 before July 27. It'll make bug-testing easier too because a Win XP ISO is way smaller in size than Win 10, for VirtualBox.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:00 pm
by Thunder93
Nope didn't work. hmmmm
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:01 pm
by Dude
Thunder93 wrote:Nope didn't work. hmmmm
Huh? Oh crap. I might start the Win 10 upgrade tonight then...
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:05 pm
by Thunder93
They work. Reason why it's blank, not everyone has their drives labelled so it becomes ' Local Disk (?:) ' in File Explorer.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:08 pm
by Dude
So my original code works too?
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:09 pm
by Thunder93
Yes.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:16 pm
by Dude
Thunder93 wrote:Yes.
Again: Thanks Thunder93!
BTW, I tested it with an unlabelled drive and you're right. Thanks for helping me with this.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:22 pm
by Thunder93
No problem.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:25 pm
by Dude
And thanks for saving me from upgrading to Windows 10.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:35 pm
by Thunder93
I don't know if I actually done you good service there...
Dude wrote:And thanks for saving me from upgrading to Windows 10.
Re: Get drive name on Win 10?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 2:31 pm
by davido
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Dude,
I wanted to find the drive name on Windows 10. Unfortunately I hadn't got a clue.
Luckily I managed to find this thread.
Thank you very much for posting the question and also thanks to
Thunder93 for the tip.