How to determine if drive is external drive

Question

How can I determine if a drive is a external drive plugged in through usb ? I checked the DriveInfo.DriveType but with my 1TB external drive plugged in through usb it shows

Answer 1

you can use WMI with

Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk

http://www.jpsoftwaretech.com/vba/using-wmi-services-in-vba/drive-information-local-network-mapped-drives/

there you have

 Select Case .DriveType
        Case 0
          strDriveType = "Unknown"
        Case 1
          strDriveType = "No Root Directory"
        Case 2
          strDriveType = "Removable Disk"
        Case 3
          strDriveType = "Local Disk"
        Case 4
          strDriveType = "Network Drive"
        Case 5
          strDriveType = "Compact Disc"
        Case 6
          strDriveType = "RAM Disk"
      End Select