Part of my program has a window much resembling a file-manager.  I would
like to include a drive bar at the top like Microsoft File Manager
(WINFILE.EXE).  I would need to know if a drive exist, and if so, it's
letter and type of drive (HD, FLOPPY, REMOTE, NET, CD, OPTICAL, ETC.).
This info I guess should be obtained from the BIOS or CMOS configuration,
or a drive list box, which will also be on the same form.  Please e-mail

stopped working...  All help appreciated in advance.  Thanks!!
-Nathan Dorfman

The first step could be using the GetDriveType() function to determine
what kind of drive it is:

Delcare Function GetDriveType Lib "KERNEL" (ByVal nDrive As Integer) As Integer

Where the value for nDrive is 0 for A:, 1 for B: and so on. The return value
will either be 2 (removable floppy drive), 3 (fixed hard disk) or 4 (network
drive). A value of 0 indicates that the drive doesn't exist.

-Mike

The VBIT DLL contains a simplified routine call for this:
type$ = SysInfo(DISK_TYPE+driveNumber%)
returning "REMOVABLE", "FIXED", "REMOTE"

There are also several other routines returning detailed information
about disks and files. This package can be found at:

http://www.vestnett.no/~idb/
ftp://ftp.vestnett.no/pub/pro/idb/