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Trubble with System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives.GetType

I'm trying to find out what type of each drive is then remove the ones which arnt hard drives.

The GetLogicalDrives works fine but how do i then uses this incomation in the Get type method.

drives = System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives
System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives.GetType()

Thanks for your help
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that is how you can get the drive type

Private Declare Function GetDriveType Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetDriveTypeA"
(ByVal nDrive As String) As Int32

Dim s As String
  Dim drivers() As String = Directory.GetLogicalDrives
  For Each s In drivers
   If GetDriveType(s) = 5 Then
    Console.WriteLine("drive letter {0} is a CDROM", s)
   End If
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oops, too slow on the draw :)
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Thanks very much
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FWIW, stick with iboutchkine's suggestion, or some version of that anyway. This blog (http://blogs.vbcity.com/drydo/) shows that it is faster than the one I posted :)