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RE: GetDrives in Win32 Help Needed

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 19, 2001
• 409 views

CK Lester wrote:
> I'm trying to get the drives on a Win95 pre-SR2 release... It seems to 
> choke
> on the "GetDiskFreeSpaceEx" because it can't find it in "kernel32.dll." 
> Can
> somebody fix it so it just ignore this, or is it (the free space) 
> required
> to get the drive status?
> 
> Thanks!
> ck
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Hi there ck,
  If you cant use GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() you can use
GetDiskFreeSpace() but your return values are limited
to 2 gigabyte disk size, but thats good enough to tell
if your ap has enough free disk space because even if
the disk is really 20 GB if it has at least 2GB free
GetDiskFreeSpace() will show 2GB, which is usually
more than enough space for most stuff.

Heres a reprint of a previous post:

-----------------------------------

include dll.e
include msgbox.e

global atom hKernel32_dll,hGetLogicalDrives,hGetDiskFreeSpace
atom retv

hKernel32_dll=open_dll("kernel32.dll")

if hKernel32_dll=0 then
    retv=message_box( "could not locate 
Kernel32.dll","GetDrives.exw",MB_ICONHAND+MB_TASKMODAL )
    abort(1)
end if



hGetLogicalDrives=
    define_c_func(hKernel32_dll, "GetLogicalDrives", {}, C_ULONG)
if hGetLogicalDrives<0 then
    retv=message_box( "could not link to c function"�D�A&
    "GetLogicalDrives in Kernel32.dll",
    "GetDrives.exw",MB_ICONHAND+MB_TASKMODAL)
    abort(1)
end if

hGetDiskFreeSpace=
    define_c_func(hKernel32_dll, "GetDiskFreeSpaceA",
    {C_POINTER,C_POINTER,C_POINTER,C_POINTER,C_POINTER}, C_ULONG)
if hGetDiskFreeSpace<0 then
    retv=message_box( "could not link to c function"�D�A&
    "GetDiskFreeSpace in Kernel32.dll","GetDrives.exw",
    MB_ICONHAND+MB_TASKMODAL)
    abort(1)
end if

function GetDiskFreeSpace(sequence drive)
    atom lpPathName,lpSectorsPerCluster,lpBytesPerSector,
         lpNumberOfFreeClusters,lpTotalNumberOfClusters,bool
    sequence info

    lpPathName=allocate_string(drive)
    lpSectorsPerCluster=allocate(4)
    lpBytesPerSector=allocate(4)
    lpNumberOfFreeClusters=allocate(4)
    lpTotalNumberOfClusters=allocate(4)

    bool=c_func(hGetDiskFreeSpace,
         {lpPathName,
         lpSectorsPerCluster,
         lpBytesPerSector,
         lpNumberOfFreeClusters,
         lpTotalNumberOfClusters})

    info={
          bool,
          peek4u(lpSectorsPerCluster),
          peek4u(lpBytesPerSector),
          peek4u(lpNumberOfFreeClusters),
          peek4u(lpTotalNumberOfClusters)
         }
    --warning:
    --this function shows bytes up to 2gig drive limit,
    --but thats good enough for most aps needing to know
    --if there is free space available.
    --If you have the newer win95+ use GetDrivesInfo().


    free(lpPathName)
    free(lpSectorsPerCluster)
    free(lpBytesPerSector)
    free(lpNumberOfFreeClusters)
    free(lpTotalNumberOfClusters)
    return info
end function

retv=c_func(hGetLogicalDrives,{})


sequence message,windows_crlf,drive,Drives,DrivesReady,info
windows_crlf=#0D�A
Drives={}
DrivesReady={}


atom bit
integer DriveLetter

message="Drives available and ready:"&windows_crlf

bit=1

for k=1 to 26 do
    if and_bits(bit,retv) then
      DriveLetter=k+96--change to "DriveLetter=k+64" for caps
      drive=DriveLetter&":\\"
      info=GetDiskFreeSpace(drive)
      if info[1] then
        info=info[2..length(info)]
        message=message&drive&windows_crlf
        DrivesReady=append(DrivesReady,drive)
      end if
      Drives=append(Drives,drive)
    end if
    bit=bit*2
end for

?Drives --sequence of all drives available on the system
puts(1,"\n")

--display all drives in the system to console:
for k=1 to length(Drives) do
    printf(1,"%s\n",{Drives[k]})
end for

--display all drives available and ready in message box:
retv=message_box( message,"GetDrives.exw",MB_TASKMODAL )