Detect inserted USB on Windows

Question

I am currently writing a security tool in python that runs as a daemon on a host computer. Whenever a usb storage device is detected, it will copy all of the files from the

Answer 1

Ok there is a much simpler way to find usb devices on windows machine use following code:

import win32file

def locate_usb():
    drive_list = []
    drivebits = win32file.GetLogicalDrives()
    for d in range(1, 26):
        mask = 1 << d
        if drivebits & mask:
            # here if the drive is at least there
            drname = '%c:\\' % chr(ord('A') + d)
            t = win32file.GetDriveType(drname)
            if t == win32file.DRIVE_REMOVABLE:
                drive_list.append(drname)
    return drive_list

code was actually taken from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2006-December/005406.html