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DriveReady

Status = DriveReady()

Parameters: NONE

Returns:

Status = 0= the drive is not ready, 1 = drive ready

The DriveReady function returns the drive status of selected drive letter. This allows you to check if a removable drives have media currently in them.

FACTS:

* Always check to a drive is ready before attempting to query information about it, such as it's volume name, serial and even when dealing files or folders. The reason for this, is user may be running this program or directing your program to read/write information to a drive that currently has no media stored in it. Like floppy, CD, or DVD drives

Mini Tutorial:

This example reads the current drive list than displays the volume name, serial and ready status of each one.

; Read the Drive List in the string Drives$
  Drives$=DriveList$()

; display the drive list
  Print "Drive Letters In This Machine:"+Drives$

; loop through the drive list string
  For lp=1 To Len(drives$) Step 2

   ; Print a blant line to space the output out
     Print ""

   ; Grab the Drive Letter from the drive string
     DriveLetter$=Mid$(Drives$,lp,2)

   ; Display the stats about this drive.
     Print "Checking Drive:"+DriveLetter$
     Print "Drive Name:"+DriveName$(DriveLetter$)
     Print "Drive Ready:"+Str$(DriveReady(DriveLetter$))
     Print "Drive Serial:"+Str$(DriveSerial(DriveLetter$))
  Next lp

; Display the screen and wait for a key press
  Sync
  WaitKey

This example will return something like the following. It's output will differ on each computer, as each computer have a different collection of drives installed in it.

Drive Letters In This Machine:A:C:

Checking Drive:A:
Drive Name:
  Drive Ready:0
  Drive Serial:0

Checking Drive:C:
  Drive Name: Windows
  Drive Ready: 1
  Drive Serial: 131231234


Related Info:	DriveExist \| DriveList$ \| DriveName$ \| DriveSerial :