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

Andrew Deniel325716-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.

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Updated on 16-Oct-2013
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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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