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Getting list of CD-ROM drives

Does anyone know how to get a list of drive letters for all the CD-ROM drives under Windows 95 using VC6?

Can't seem to find anything in MSDN...

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GetLogicalDrives() returns a 32 bit value (DWORD) that is a bitmask of the drives that are defined on the computer.  each bit that is set to 1 indicates a drive that is defined.  i.e if the low bit is set, then there is a drive A and so on.  Use this to determine what drive letters are available.

Once you know what drive letters are available, use GetDriveType() to determine which of those drives are a CDROM.  It returns DRIVE_CDROM for a cd ROM.

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DWORD DrvMsk = GetLogicalDrives();
char DrvLtr;
char DrvPth = "A:\\";

for (DrvLtr = 'A'; DrvLtr <= 'Z'; ++DrvLtr) // For each letter.
{
   if (DrvMsk & 1) // If drive is defined, then
   {
       DrvPth[0] = DrvLtr; // Store drive letter in path string.
       if (GetDriveType(DrvPth) ==  DRIVE_CDROM)
          DoSomething();
   }
   DrvMsk >>= 1; // shift next bit to low bit.
}