How can I read a "drive label" or "volume name" in .NET?

Question

Can you show sample code for reading a drive label or volume name in .NET? I get the sense this requires WMI, but I am loathe to "drop-down" into WMI because it is like dropping down into a string-based SQL query in the sense that certain objects may not exist on certain versions of OSes or the user may not have the right to query certain data. I will be happy to be convinced that I'm wrong about WMI ...

Answer 1

No WMI required. The following will get all volume labels:

var labels = from drive in DriveInfo.GetDrives()
             select drive.VolumeLabel

HTH, Kent

Answer 2

Call DriveInfo.GetDrives to get an array of drive information. Then look at DriveInfo.VolumeLabel

Answer 3

You could use System.IO.DriveInfo to get the list of drives. See following example:

Note: CDRom drive types do not have a volume name.

Using System.IO;
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DriveInfo[] driveInfoList = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
foreach (DriveInfo drive in driveInfoList)
{
    if (drive.DriveType != DriveType.CDRom)
       textBox1.Text += String.Format("Name:{0} Volume:{1}\r\n", drive.Name, drive.VolumeLabel);
    else
       textBox1.Text += String.Format("Name:{0}\r\n", drive.
}