When I open Disk Management
(right click My Computer->Manage) I see:
How can I know that path F:\
belongs to Disk5? In other words I will like to know what disks are available with C#.
The reason why I need to know that is because I have a usb mas storage device that is encrypted and I need to pass the parameter \Device\Harddisk5
to TrueCrypt along with the password in order to mount the encrypted device with code.
I know how to look the drives info. I just dont konw how to know that Drive 1 belongs to disk 0 for instance. In other words I am having trouble figuring out the Disk Number. I am looking to implement:
public string GetDiskNumber(char letter)
{
// implenetation
return Disk5;
}
where I will call that as:
GetDiskNumber('F');
You can use WMI to retrieve that information
System.Management.ManagementObject("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=" & DriveLetter & ":")
See more at Win32_LogicalDisk class I hope it helps. By the way there is PInvoke too GetVolumeInformation.
If you need 'PHYSICALDRIVE0' you should use Win32_PhysicalMedia class and the class Win32_DiskDrivePhysicalMedia glue both.
An exemple of your need in C#
public string GetDiskNumber(string letter)
{
var ret = "0";
var scope = new ManagementScope("\\\\.\\ROOT\\cimv2");
var query = new ObjectQuery("Associators of {Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID='" + letter + ":'} WHERE ResultRole=Antecedent");
var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query);
var queryCollection = searcher.Get();
foreach (ManagementObject m in queryCollection)
{
ret = m["Name"].ToString().Replace("Disk #", "")[0].ToString();
}
return ret;
}
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