"Drive" Class - Disk Drive

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the Drive class that represents a disk drive of a file system. Drive class is provided in the Scripting Runtime DLL, scrrun.dll.

"Drive": A class representing a disk drive of the file system. It offers the following methods and properties:

Here is a sample ASP page to show the above properties:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">
'  drive_test.asp
'  Copyright (c) 1999 by Dr. Herong Yang
'  This program shows how to use the Drive class.
'
   response.write("<html><body>")
   response.write("<b>Tests on the Drive class</b>:<br/>")
   ' Creating a FileSystemObject object
   set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   set ds = fs.Drives
   response.write("List of drives:<br/>")
   ' Display all drives and their properties
   for each d in ds
      response.write("Drive Letter = " & d.DriveLetter & "<br/>")
      response.write("Drive Type = " & d.DriveType & "<br/>")
      response.write("Is Ready = " & d.IsReady & "<br/>")
      response.write("Path = " & d.Path & "<br/>")
      response.write("Share Name = " & d.ShareName & "<br/>")
      if d.IsReady then 
         response.write("File System = " & d.FileSystem & "<br/>")
         response.write("Serial Number = " & d.SerialNumber & "<br/>")
         response.write("Volume Name = " & d.VolumeName & "<br/>")
         response.write("Total Size = " & d.TotalSize & "<br/>")
         response.write("Free Space = " & d.FreeSpace & "<br/>")
      end if
   next
   response.write("</body></html>")
</script>

Output:

Tests on the Drive class:
List of drives:
Drive Letter = C
Drive Type = 2
Is Ready = True
Path = C:
Share Name = 
File System = NTFS
Serial Number = 1545214583
Volume Name = New Volume
Total Size = 9697603584
Free Space = 4838227968
Drive Letter = D
Drive Type = 4
Is Ready = False
Path = D:
Share Name = 

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Table of Contents

 About This Book

 ASP (Active Server Pages) Introduction

 IIS (Internet Information Services) 5.0

 MS Script Debugger

 VBScript Language

 ASP Built-in Run-time Objects

 ASP Session

 Creating and Managing Cookies

 Managing Sessions with and without Cookies

scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL

 What Is scrrun.dll?

 "Dictionary" Class - Collection of Key-Value Pairs

 "FileSystemObject" Class - File System

"Drive" Class - Disk Drive

 "Folder" Class - File Folder

 "File" Class - File Folder

 "TextStream" Class - Input or Output Stream

 Managing Response Header Lines

 Calculation Speed and Response Time

 ADO (ActiveX Data Object) DLL

 Working with MS Access Database

 Guest Book Application Example

 References

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