Question

I’m looking for a way to get all the local drives on a Windows machine,
So far, I tried with two options

1)

# Win32Com
from win32com.client import Dispatch
import sys

fso = Dispatch('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
for drive in fso.Drives:
    print drive, drive.DriveType

2)

# win32api
import win32api
import win32file
drives = (drive for drive in win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split("\000") if drive)
for drive in drives:
    print drive, win32file.GetDriveType(drive)

This two ways works (almost) fine, I get my drive list such as:

A: 1    // Removable
C: 2    // Fixed
D: 2    
E: 2
G: 2    // Fixed    (??? SUBST'ed drive)
I: 4    // Cd-Rom
X: 3    // Network

but the G: drive is a SUBST’ed drive (eg: created with SUBST G: C:\TEST),
and I cannot find the way to differentiate it from a “real” local drive.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Pablo

Answer 1

Google tells me that if you try and fetch a GUID for a SUBST-ed drive it will fail:

>>> import win32file
>>> win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint("C:\\")
'\\\\?\\Volume{50c800a9-c62e-11df-b5bb-806e6f6e6963}\\'
>>> win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint("K:\\")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
pywintypes.error: (87, 'GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint', 
                       'The parameter is incorrect.')

This seems to work but may not be reliable.