Thursday, 15 November 2012

Get Drive Name of Connected USB using C#


Get Drive Name of Connected USB using C#


Get drive letters of connected USB storage devices. These can then be used in file I/O operations.

using System.Management;

Code: 

private static List<string> GetConnectedUsbDrives()
{
    List<string> usbDriveLetters = new List<string>( );

   var usbDrives = new ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELECT DeviceID FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType='USB'" );

    foreach ( ManagementObject drive in usbDrives.Get( ) )
    {
        var partitions = new ManagementObjectSearcher( "ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID='" + drive[ "DeviceID" ].ToString( ) + "'} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition" );

        foreach ( var partition in partitions.Get( ) )
        {
            var logicalDrives = new ManagementObjectSearcher( "ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID='" + partition[ "DeviceID" ].ToString( ) + "'} WHERE AssocClass = Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition" );

            foreach ( var logicalDrive in logicalDrives.Get( ) )
            {
                usbDriveLetters.Add( logicalDrive[ "Caption" ].ToString( ) );
            }
        }
    }

    return usbDriveLetters;
}


Implementation:


static void Main ( string[ ] args )
{
    foreach ( var s in GetConnectedUsbDrives() )
    {
        Debug.WriteLine( "Drive : " + s );
    }

    Console.ReadLine( );
}

   

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