Differentiate between virtual drive and physical drive
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Hi! I have installed daemon-tools and have a virtual drive. I need my C# program to list all my physical disk-drives and not virtual ones. So far, I could do the following [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern DriveType GetDriveType([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string lpRootPathName); ----and in the code---- string[] allDrives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives(); for (int i = 0; i < allDrives.Length; i++) { if ((GetDriveType(allDrives[i]) & DriveType.CDROM) == DriveType.CDROM) { Console.WriteLine(allDrives[i]); } } It lists my physical disk-drives as well as virtual ones. Any suggestions how to go about enumerating only the physical ones? Thanks.
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allDrives[i].GetType().IsVirtual
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email me the NDA, I'll print it and sign it and get it back to you via cpp (Carrier Pigeon Post) ASAP
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How about I email you the pigeon as well?
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How about I email you the pigeon as well?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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How about I email you the pigeon as well?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Interesting. Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?
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Hi! I have installed daemon-tools and have a virtual drive. I need my C# program to list all my physical disk-drives and not virtual ones. So far, I could do the following [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern DriveType GetDriveType([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string lpRootPathName); ----and in the code---- string[] allDrives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives(); for (int i = 0; i < allDrives.Length; i++) { if ((GetDriveType(allDrives[i]) & DriveType.CDROM) == DriveType.CDROM) { Console.WriteLine(allDrives[i]); } } It lists my physical disk-drives as well as virtual ones. Any suggestions how to go about enumerating only the physical ones? Thanks.
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Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc
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Interesting. Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?
Well. Pigeons eat grain which is inherently cerealizable (groan) so I should be able to send a deep copy.
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Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc
:laugh:Nice. That's obviously your engineering side coming to the fore.
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Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc
I would just remove all drives from the computer. Every drive I can now see must be virtual.
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I would just remove all drives from the computer. Every drive I can now see must be virtual.
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I prefer to think of them as conceptual drives. Drives in the abstract if you like. Drives that might exist in a quantum universe.
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I prefer to think of them as conceptual drives. Drives in the abstract if you like. Drives that might exist in a quantum universe.
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You mean Schrodinger's drives?
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You mean Schrodinger's drives?
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perhaps Heisenberg drives.
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You mean Schrodinger's drives?
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Richard Jones wrote:
You mean Schrodinger's drives?
Don't get those, although they do arive working, they are also DOA.
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Richard Jones wrote:
You mean Schrodinger's drives?
Don't get those, although they do arive working, they are also DOA.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Well - you won't know until you open the box.
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Well - you won't know until you open the box.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Well - you won't know until you open the box.
yeah, I am trying to work out a quantum interface so I can use it before the box is opened, this way it will always work and always fail, that's better than the 50/50 chance right?
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perhaps Heisenberg drives.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
The problem with Heisenberg drives is that's is very difficult to figure out exactly where they are and what they are up to.
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Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc
Wow! Thank you very much for your replies...Marc's answer concerning Newtonian and Einsteinian physics was hilarious. Will try out the suggested methods and let u know. Thanks once again.
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