List All System Drives using C#.NET

This tip will explain how to get the computer’s logical drives from the local system. The code will work on flavors of C#.net. First of Create new C#.Net Console Application, you can do same by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N

Now replace you Program.cs file content with following…

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;  
 
namespace DirList
{ 
 
class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives(); 
 
foreach (DriveInfo dirInfo in allDrives)
{
Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", dirInfo.Name);
Console.WriteLine("File type: {0}", dirInfo.DriveType);
if (dirInfo.IsReady == true)
{
Console.WriteLine("Volume label: {0}", dirInfo.VolumeLabel);
Console.WriteLine("File system: {0}", dirInfo.DriveFormat);
Console.WriteLine("Available space:{0, 15} bytes", dirInfo.AvailableFreeSpace); 
 
Console.WriteLine("Total available space: {0, 15} bytes", dirInfo.TotalFreeSpace); 
 
Console.WriteLine("Total size:{0, 15} bytes ",dirInfo.TotalSize);
Console.WriteLine("\n"); 
 
}
}
Console.Read();
}
} 
 
}

Which will shows us following output. it also show information about your Network drive and CD/DVD drive too…

To get all directory information we have use System.IO namespace. The System.IO namespace contains types that allow reading and writing to files and data streams and types that provide basic file and directory support.

Then using DriveInfo class, we get information on drive. 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.

Following properties are supported by DriveInfo Public Properties

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