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Re: [WIN] GetLogicalDrives returns drives NOT present

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at p?od?gy.net> Jan 29, 2008
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> <<SNIP>>
> > > 
> > > Chris: 
> > > I kinda thought *logical* drives might be at least part of the problem I'm
> > > having, but I don't think I can decipher/translate the C code.  I'm
> > > wondering if there isn't some way to defeat the presentation of the error
> > > messages?  I thought there is something along those line in Win32Lib?
> > > 
> > 
> > If what you get is a dialog box that allows you to continue executing
> > (yes/no/cancel),
> > then calling setWarning(0) before running your code will suppress it. I must
> > say that it is not the recommended way...
> > 
> > I'll try to find some time to post a translation of the code at MSDN.
> > Actually,
> > it's pretty simple: get all known volume strings, then retrieve all the
> > paths
> > for each of those strings. Because there are sequences of chars everywhere,
> > the code isn't as short as you might exect at first, but... it may be worth
> > to try again.
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > CChris
> 
> CChris,
> 
> Thanks, but never mind, I found a "getVolumeInformation()" function
> in a set of includes by Austin Cathey in my system, although I haven't yet
> re-found it in contributions, where I must have got it from at some time.
> 
> That's pretty much what you originally suggested I do!  :)
> 
> Thanks for the effort, though.
> 
> Dan

Oops, the "getVolumeInformation" was really by William Heimbigner, it used a
dll handling include that was by Austin Cathey, that's what confused me,
I thought they were both by the same person. 

Dan