Question

I would find out the floppy inserted state:

• no floppy inserted
• unformatted floppy inserted
• formatted floppy inserted

Can this determined using ‘WMI’ in the System.Management namespace?

If so, can I generate events when the floppy inserted state changes?

Answer 1

Using Bob Kings idea I wrote the following method.

It works great on CD’s, removable drives, regular drives.

However for a floppy it always return ‘Not Available’.

    public static void TestFloppy( char driveLetter ) {         using( var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(  @'SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DeviceID = '' + driveLetter + ':'' ) )         using( var logicalDisks = searcher.Get() ) {             foreach( ManagementObject logicalDisk in logicalDisks ) {                 var fs = logicalDisk[ 'FreeSpace' ];                 Console.WriteLine( 'FreeSpace = ' + ( fs ?? 'Not Available' ) );                  logicalDisk.Dispose();             }         }     }