Getting Disk Size Properly

Question

I am trying to get the physical device size of a connected USB flash drive. I have tried using WMI.

        ManagementObjectSearcher mosDisks = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE Model = '" + cmbHdd.SelectedItem + "'");
        foreach (ManagementObject moDisk in mosDisks.Get())
        {
            lblCapacity.Text = "Capacity: " + moDisk["Size"];
        }

I have tried using imports to get the geometry:

        var geo = new DiskGeometry();
        uint returnedBytes;
        DeviceIoControl(Handle, 0x70000, IntPtr.Zero, 0, ref geo, (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(DiskGeometry)), out returnedBytes, IntPtr.Zero);
        return geo.DiskSize;

They all do return a value.. but it is not correct.

For example, the above code returns 250056737280. When I dump the entire binary contents to a new file, FileStream.Length returns 250059350015

See how the last option is bigger? That is also the corrrect size I need to get for my code to work as expected. But I cannot dump 250gb of data just to get the full size. So is there another method to get proper size?

Answer 1

Hi there.

Is this any use for you?

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class MainClass
{
    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    static extern bool GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(string lpDirectoryName,
       out ulong lpFreeBytesAvailable,
       out ulong lpTotalNumberOfBytes,
       out ulong lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes);
    public static void Main()
    {
        ulong freeBytesAvail;
        ulong totalNumOfBytes;
        ulong totalNumOfFreeBytes;

        if (!GetDiskFreeSpaceEx("C:\\", out freeBytesAvail, out totalNumOfBytes, out totalNumOfFreeBytes))
        {
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Error occurred: {0}",
                Marshal.GetExceptionForHR(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error()).Message);
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Free disk space:");
            Console.WriteLine("    Available bytes : {0}", freeBytesAvail);
            Console.WriteLine("    Total # of bytes: {0}", totalNumOfBytes);
            Console.WriteLine("    Total free bytes: {0}", totalNumOfFreeBytes);
        }
    }
}

Found the above example here: http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/CSharp/0520__Windows/Getfreediskspace.htm

Cheers. Jas.

Answer 2

You might consider trying IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO with DevideIoControl.