Testing for empty drives

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G Dean Blake - 29 Apr 2005 01:20 GMT

dim DriveList as string() = Environment.GetLogicalDrives
gives me a string array of every drive on the system

If I cast any of those strings as a directoryinfo, and it is, for instance,
'A:\' and drive A is empty, I get an exception when it is referenced.

Is there any way to test to see if it will cause an exception before getting
the exception?
Thanks,
G

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 29 Apr 2005 23:07 GMT

"G Dean Blake" <gb@nospam.com> schrieb:

> dim DriveList as string() = Environment.GetLogicalDrives
> gives me a string array of every drive on the system
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> Is there any way to test to see if it will cause an exception before
> getting the exception?

You can try to catch the exception.

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