How to Check presence of a usb drive using C#?

Andrew Deniel 3881 16 Oct 2013

I am writing a file that extracts xml to obtain name of files and need to copy these files to the USB drive. The first 2 steps I able to do this.

my questions is:

1. How can I detect if there is a USB Drive

2. Then detect which drive it is.

Thanks

Ask by Andrew Deniel

Updated 16 Oct 2013

1 Answers

Anonymous User 16 Oct 2013

foreach (DriveInfo removableDrive in DriveInfo.GetDrives().Where(

            d => d.DriveType == DriveType.Removable && d.IsReady))

        {

            DirectoryInfo rootDirectory = removableDrive.RootDirectory;

            string monitoredDirectory = Path.Combine(rootDirectory.FullName, DIRECTORY_TO_MONITOR);

            string localDestDirectory = Path.Combine(destDirectory, removableDrive.VolumeLabel);

            if (!Directory.Exists(localDestDirectory))

                Directory.CreateDirectory(localDestDirectory);

            if (Directory.Exists(monitoredDirectory))

            {

                foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(monitoredDirectory))

                {

                    File.Copy(file, Path.Combine(localDestDirectory, Path.GetFileName(file)), true);

                }

            }

        }

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