How can I get list of all drives but also get the corresponding drive type (removable,local disk, or cd-rom,dvd-rom… etc)?

Question

How can I get list all drives but also get the corresponding drive type (removable,local disk, or cd-rom,dvd-rom... etc)?

Answer 1

The correct way is how Luciano answered with isRemovable property, but I recently had on win 10 that if I started from USB, then USBs were no longer found in that method.

So, I used, for Windows only, the following wmic calls:

ArrayList rootDirs = new ArrayList();
if( isWin )
{


  if( i_dolog )
    LOG.info( "Windows found as OS." );
  ArrayList partids = new ArrayList();

  String results0 = execute( "wmic diskdrive where interfacetype='USB' assoc /assocclass:Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition" );
  String lines[] = results0.split( "\r\r\n" );
  for( String line : lines )
  {
    String test = "Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID=";
    int index = line.indexOf( test );
    if( index >= 0 )
    {
      String partid = line.substring( index + test.length() + 1 );
      partid = partid.substring( 0, partid.indexOf( '"' ) );
      partids.add( partid );
    }
  }
  for( String partition : partids )
  {
    String results2 = execute( "wmic partition where (DeviceID='" + partition + "') assoc /assocclass:Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition" );
    String lines2[] = results2.split( "\r\r\n" );
    for( String line : lines2 )
    {
      String test = "Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=";
      int index = line.indexOf( test );
      if( index >= 0 )
      {
        String partid = line.substring( index + test.length() + 1 );
        partid = partid.substring( 0, partid.indexOf( '"' ) );
        rootDirs.add( new File( partid + "\\" ) );
      }
    }
  }
}