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DriveInfo Class

.NET Framework 4.5

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Provides access to information on a drive.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System::Object
System.IO::DriveInfo

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

C++

[SerializableAttribute]
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public ref class DriveInfo sealed : ISerializable

The DriveInfo type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	DriveInfo	Provides access to information on the specified drive.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	AvailableFreeSpace	Indicates the amount of available free space on a drive.
	DriveFormat	Gets the name of the file system, such as NTFS or FAT32.
	DriveType	Gets the drive type.
	IsReady	Gets a value indicating whether a drive is ready.
	Name	Gets the name of a 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.
	VolumeLabel	Gets or sets the volume label of a drive.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetDrives	Retrieves the drive names of all logical drives on a computer.
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a drive name as a string. (Overrides Object::ToString().)

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Explicit Interface Implementations

	Name	Description
	ISerializable::GetObjectData	Populates a SerializationInfo object with the data needed to serialize the target object.

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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.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates the use of the DriveInfo class to display information about all of the drives on the current system.

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No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

.NET Framework Security

FileIOPermission
for accessing directory information. The class constructor requires this permission. Associated enumeration: PathDiscovery.

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Reference

System.IO Namespace

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