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What language/methods to use to listen to removeable drives in Windows?

What language or method would I use to listen to the event when a removeable drive is plugged into the PC? ...

primary partition limit on Linux

Hi [Linux Newbie]- I'm going to buy a server to host an Oracle database. The server will be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The server will have 6 hard drives. I know there is a limit of 4 primary partitions in Linux. Here is my question: Is the 4 partition limit per physical hard drive (so I could have 6 disks x 4 primary part...

Storing web server images in windows C drive

I am running tomcat and I have some custom images which when I store on my C drive do not show up.If I move them to webapp root foder, they r fine but I do not want these images to end up in the war file.As I am using Windows symbolic link is not an option. Any idea as to how I can make the images show up without storing in the webapp ro...

Get Drive Size in Java 5

I want to get the size of a drive (or UNC path pointing to a partition would be nice, but not required), as well as free space for said drive (or UNC path). This doesn't need to work cross platform; only in Windows. I know it's easy to do in Java 6, but that's not an option; I'm stuck with Java 5. I can get the free space available by...

What's a good system for storing hard drive images

I'd like to study the effects my software has on different OS environments. I've determined the best way to analyze the differences involves storing the entire hard drive image as soon as the software is finished executing. What's a painless system (including both the hardware and software) that will allow me to quickly hookup desktop ...

How do I get the substed drive letter in Perl?

Hi there I need to get substed drive letter in Perl. Could anyone kindly help me? $ENV{SYSTEMDRIVE} does not work; it gives me real logical drive letter, not the substed one. thanxalot for your help ...

Is sharepoint Open Source?

Is sharepoint Open Source? Can I edit the code? can I install mods (extensions) to sharepoint? Links will be aperciated! :) By the way I was trying to test drive it, but this doesn't work with IE6, it says I should enable cookies however I'm enabling them :( Solution please... Thanks :) ...

USB Drives and the Windows Drive Limit

What happens on a Windows box once you add more drives than can fit in the A-Z drive letters. I know about the mountvol command but my solution needs to work on Win98/XP systems that do not use NTFS. Is there any way to provide access to those drives? ...

How can I make a USB flash drive appear/not appear as a CD drive?

I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's website). I know U3 drives also appear as CD drives, but their uninstall utility only works for their own drives. How can I make it appea...

Similar to RAID config yet more like mirroring solution ?

I have a project where I'm collecting data in vehicles on hot swappable SATA drives in low horsepower windows machine. Drives are 750G and 1 Terabyte and will likely get larger or expand to multiple 1TB drives. After collecting the data we fedex off one drive for central collection and wish to have a backup copy remain. Initially the ...

Acquiring drive names (as opposed to drive letters) in Java

Hi, On my Windows machine, my main hard drive has the letter C: and the name "Local disk". To list the drive letters in Java on Windows, the File object has the static listRoots() method. But I can't find a way to acquire the drive names (as opposed to the drive letters) on Windows. Has anyone tried this before? Thanks, Mattijs ...

Start application from driver

HI, Can I start another application from a driver code? The code is written in C and compiled with DDK. ...

C# dropbox of drives

I remember in vb6 there was a control that was similar to a dropbox/combobox that you can select the drive name. It raises an event which you can then set another control which enumerate files in listbox. (in drive.event you do files.path = drive.path to get this affect). Is there anything like this in C#? a control that drops down a li...

are there best practices or tricks for indexing/monitoring a drive for files?

I need to find and monitor all the photos on a hard drive or a folder for a photo organizer. Currently I'm doing this naively: recursively traversing, manually marking folders as indexed, and repeating that process to catch when photos are added or moved. The problem is with a large enough folder tree this is very expensive, so I'm l...

Vista Network Drives

I added a network drive to my PC but I now want to get rid of it. Cannot find a menu to perform this task. Any ideas? ...

SSD as inline cache

This may be slightly off-topic for a strictly programming site, but I'm interested in starting a software project or contributing to an existing project that can do what I'm proposing. Now that SSD storage is becoming more popular, I am more interested in using one in my destop computer. Since they are very expensive per Gigabyte compa...

How to Create a Virtual Windows Drive

Hello, I'm trying to create a Windows Virtual Drive ( like c:\ ) to map a remote storage. The main purpose is to do it in a clear way to the user. Therefore the user wouldn't know that he is writing/reading from another site. I was searching for available products, and i find that FUSE is not an option in Windows and WebDAV maps direct...

Network Shares of Removable Drives Disappear (Windows)

(Sorry if this sounds clumsy, I'm not always sure about the English terms for this) I have two removable drives. I can set the access rights so that they can be shared and used from another network computer, but when I start my main computer the next time and the drives are switched off, they seem to lose the share settings and I have t...

Reading the serial number of USB storage device in Vb

Is it possible to read the serial number of a USB drive using VB. ...

What is the best way to map windows drives using Python?

What is the best way to map a network share to a windows drive using Python? This share also requires a username and password. ...