Does the FileSYstemObject have any properties to determine whether a partition is FAT or NTFS?
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Primoz Brada #2 / 9
Detecting FAT/NTFS drives
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> Does the FileSYstemObject have any properties to determine whether a partition > is FAT or NTFS?
> Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd > (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
You could use this:
Set FSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set allDrives = FSys.Drives For each iDrive in allDrives if iDrive.DriveType = fixedDisk and iDrive.isReady then MsgBox iDrive.FileSystem end if Next Set allDrives = Nothing
Primoz
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Neil Pik #3 / 9
Detecting FAT/NTFS drives
Primoz - tried that. It doesn't display anything though...
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Michael Harri #4 / 9
Detecting FAT/NTFS drives
Add
fixedDisk = 2
-- Michael Harris MVP Scripting
Primoz - tried that. It doesn't display anything though...
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Primoz Brada #5 / 9
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Yes, Michael is correct. Sorry for the omission of this "detail".
Primoz
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> Primoz - tried that. It doesn't display anything though...
> Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd > (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Neil Pik #6 / 9
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Sorry Michael, I'm being dumb. Add it to where?
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Primoz Brada #7 / 9
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> Sorry Michael, I'm being dumb. Add it to where?
> Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd > (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
As a definition (at start of the script)
Primoz
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Neil Pik #8 / 9
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Woohoo. Now it works fine!
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:00:00 GMT
Neil Pik #9 / 9
Detecting FAT/NTFS drives
Primoz - aha - now it all becomes clear. Sorry for being thick!
Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please post ALL replies to the newsgroup only unless indicated otherwise)
Detecting FAT/NTFS drives