Hard drive Info

Code Crapper

What would I type to get a computers Harddrive total space and used space? I have been looking around allot and all I have found is useless VB 6 code and some jibberish in C#, can someone please help me with this. Many Thanks :confused:

OldWarhorse

System.IO.DriveInfo Boy, you're being a P.I.A. today. You're gonna owe me a cut of that app. :laugh:

Code Crapper

that easy!!! omg.. sorry for the dumb question :-D

OldWarhorse

:laugh: - You crack me up, Dude. Hey, the only dumb question is the one you should have asked and didn't, right? :)

Code Crapper

Ah hell now i came to another bottleneck... um (feels very stupid) how can i use this to display the actual total size of a drive because so far i can get it to say 16Bytes when it should be saying 250GB (well in that region)

OldWarhorse

Try something like this:

    Dim dr As New System.IO.DriveInfo("C")
    Dim sizeInBytes As Long
    Dim sizeInGB As Single

    sizeInBytes = dr.TotalSize
    sizeInGB = sizeInBytes / 1000000000
    TextBox1.Text = String.Format("Total Drive Size in Bytes:  {0}", sizeInBytes.ToString("#,###,###,###,###"))
    TextBox2.Text = String.Format("Total Drive Size in GB:  {0}", sizeInGB.ToString("###,###,###,###.00"))

You can play around with the verbage, divisor value, and formatting as you prefer.

Code Crapper

Yes!! thanks so much for this golden nugget i been searching for something like this for ages whew THANK YOU!! :-D

OldWarhorse

You're welcome! :-D (I gotta go do some nasty work for a while now. Fighting an 8-headed datagrid monster. Catch ya later. Happy coding.)