API: Enumerating Local and Network Drives

(A) Since you control how you will use the return values, use the sample sub sListAllDrives as an example on how to recurse through the drives list. Post the following code in a new module.

'************ Code Start **************
'This code was originally written by Terry Kreft
'and Dev Ashish.
'It is not to be altered or distributed,
'except as part of an application.
'You are free to use it in any application,
'provided the copyright notice is left unchanged.
'
' Original Code by Terry Kreft
' Modified by Dev Ashish
'
'Drive Types
Private Const DRIVE_UNKNOWN = 0
Private Const DRIVE_ABSENT = 1
Private Const DRIVE_REMOVABLE = 2
Private Const DRIVE_FIXED = 3
Private Const DRIVE_REMOTE = 4
Private Const DRIVE_CDROM = 5
Private Const DRIVE_RAMDISK = 6
' returns errors for UNC Path
Private Const ERROR_BAD_DEVICE = 1200&
Private Const ERROR_CONNECTION_UNAVAIL = 1201&
Private Const ERROR_EXTENDED_ERROR = 1208&
Private Const ERROR_MORE_DATA = 234
Private Const ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED = 50&
Private Const ERROR_NO_NET_OR_BAD_PATH = 1203&
Private Const ERROR_NO_NETWORK = 1222&
Private Const ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED = 2250&
Private Const NO_ERROR = 0

Private Declare Function WNetGetConnection Lib "mpr.dll" Alias _
        "WNetGetConnectionA" (ByVal lpszLocalName As String, _
        ByVal lpszRemoteName As String, cbRemoteName As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetLogicalDriveStrings Lib "kernel32" Alias _
    "GetLogicalDriveStringsA" (ByVal nBufferLength As Long, _
    ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long
Private Declare Function GetDriveType Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetDriveTypeA" _
    (ByVal nDrive As String) As Long

Private Function fGetDrives() As String
'Returns all mapped drives
    Dim lngRet As Long
    Dim strDrives As String * 255
    Dim lngTmp As Long
    lngTmp = Len(strDrives)
    lngRet = GetLogicalDriveStrings(lngTmp, strDrives)
    fGetDrives = Left(strDrives, lngRet)
End Function

Private Function fGetUNCPath(strDriveLetter As String) As String
    On Local Error GoTo fGetUNCPath_Err

    Dim Msg As String, lngReturn As Long
    Dim lpszLocalName As String
    Dim lpszRemoteName As String
    Dim cbRemoteName As Long
    lpszLocalName = strDriveLetter
    lpszRemoteName = String$(255, Chr$(32))
    cbRemoteName = Len(lpszRemoteName)
    lngReturn = WNetGetConnection(lpszLocalName, lpszRemoteName, _
                                       cbRemoteName)
    Select Case lngReturn
        Case ERROR_BAD_DEVICE
            Msg = "Error: Bad Device"
        Case ERROR_CONNECTION_UNAVAIL
            Msg = "Error: Connection Un-Available"
        Case ERROR_EXTENDED_ERROR
            Msg = "Error: Extended Error"
        Case ERROR_MORE_DATA
               Msg = "Error: More Data"
        Case ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED
               Msg = "Error: Feature not Supported"
        Case ERROR_NO_NET_OR_BAD_PATH
               Msg = "Error: No Network Available or Bad Path"

        Case ERROR_NO_NETWORK
               Msg = "Error: No Network Available"
        Case ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED
               Msg = "Error: Not Connected"
        Case NO_ERROR
               ' all is successful...
    End Select
    If Len(Msg) Then
        MsgBox Msg, vbInformation
    Else
        fGetUNCPath = Left$(lpszRemoteName, cbRemoteName)
    End If
fGetUNCPath_End:
    Exit Function
fGetUNCPath_Err:
    MsgBox Err.Description, vbInformation
    Resume fGetUNCPath_End
End Function

Private Function fDriveType(strDriveName As String) As String
    Dim lngRet As Long
    Dim strDrive As String
    lngRet = GetDriveType(strDriveName)
    Select Case lngRet
        Case DRIVE_UNKNOWN 'The drive type cannot be determined.
            strDrive = "Unknown Drive Type"
        Case DRIVE_ABSENT 'The root directory does not exist.
            strDrive = "Drive does not exist"
        Case DRIVE_REMOVABLE 'The drive can be removed from the drive.
            strDrive = "Removable Media"
        Case DRIVE_FIXED 'The disk cannot be removed from the drive.
            strDrive = "Fixed Drive"
        Case DRIVE_REMOTE  'The drive is a remote (network) drive.
            strDrive = "Network Drive"
        Case DRIVE_CDROM 'The drive is a CD-ROM drive.
            strDrive = "CD Rom"
        Case DRIVE_RAMDISK 'The drive is a RAM disk.
            strDrive = "Ram Disk"
    End Select
    fDriveType = strDrive
End Function

Sub sListAllDrives()
    Dim strAllDrives As String
    Dim strTmp As String
    
    strAllDrives = fGetDrives
    If strAllDrives <> "" Then
        Do
            strTmp = Mid$(strAllDrives, 1, InStr(strAllDrives, vbNullChar) - 1)
            strAllDrives = Mid$(strAllDrives, InStr(strAllDrives, vbNullChar) + 1)
            Select Case fDriveType(strTmp)
                Case "Removable Media":
                    Debug.Print "Removable drive :  " & strTmp
                Case "CD ROM":
                    Debug.Print "   CD Rom drive :  " & strTmp
                Case "Fixed Drive":
                    Debug.Print "    Local drive :  " & strTmp
                Case "Network Drive":
                    Debug.Print "  Network drive :  " & strTmp
                    Debug.Print "       UNC Path :  " & _
                                fGetUNCPath(Left$(strTmp, Len(strTmp) - 1))
            End Select
        Loop While strAllDrives <> ""
    End If
End Sub
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