calculate free space of C drive using vbscript

Question

how can i write vbscript that calculates the free space in C: drive of a windows machine

Answer 1

Use the FileSystemObject The page includes an JScript example

function ShowDriveInfo1(drvPath)
{
   var fso, drv, s ="";
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   drv = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(drvPath));
   s += "Drive " + drvPath.toUpperCase()+ " - ";
   s += drv.VolumeName + "<br>";
   s += "Total Space: " + drv.TotalSize / 1024;
   s += " Kb" + "<br>"; 
   s += "Free Space: " + drv.FreeSpace / 1024;
   s += " Kb" + "<br>";
   Response.Write(s);
}

Answer 2

have a look at this page:

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:")
Set objLogicalDisk = objWMIService.Get("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID='c:'")
Wscript.Echo objLogicalDisk.FreeSpace

Answer 3

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set d = fso.GetDrive("C:")
WScript.Echo d.FreeSpace