VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v6.02, by Herong Yang
"Drive" Objects Representing Disk Drives
This section describes Drive object properties. A tutorial example is provided on how to list all drives and their properties on the local machine.
"Drive": An object representing a drive of the file system. It offers the following methods and properties:
Here is a VBScript example showing you how to use Drive object properties:
<html> <body> <!-- drive_test.html - Copyright (c) 2002 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. --> <pre> <script language="vbscript"> ' Creating a FileSystemObject object set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' Display all drives and their properties set ds = fs.Drives document.writeln("List of drives:") for each d in ds document.writeln("Drive Letter = " & d.DriveLetter) document.writeln("Drive Type = " & d.DriveType) document.writeln("Is Ready = " & d.IsReady) document.writeln("Path = " & d.Path) document.writeln("Share Name = " & d.ShareName) if d.IsReady then document.writeln("File System = " & d.FileSystem) document.writeln("Serial Number = " & d.SerialNumber) document.writeln("Volume Name = " & d.VolumeName) document.writeln("Total Size = " & d.TotalSize) document.writeln("Free Space = " & d.FreeSpace) end if next </script> </pre> </body> </html>
When you load this example into IE, you will get a security warning. You can ignore it and get the output:
List of drives: Drive Letter = C Drive Type = 2 Is Ready = True Path = C: Share Name = File System = NTFS Serial Number = 1545214583 Volume Name = New Volume Total Size = 9697603584 Free Space = 4838227968 Drive Letter = D Drive Type = 4 Is Ready = False Path = D: Share Name =
Note that: Drive "D:" is my CD-ROM, which is not ready, because it is not loaded with any CD.
Table of Contents
Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition
Variant Data Type, Subtypes, and Literals
Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations
String Operations - Concatenation and Comparison
Variable Declaration and Assignment Statement
Expression and Order of Operation Precedence
Statement Syntax and Statement Types
Array Data Type and Related Statements
Array References and Array Assignment Statements
Conditional Statements - "If ... Then" and "Select Case"
Loop Statements - "For", "While", and "Do"
"Function" and "Sub" Procedures
Inspecting Variables Received in Procedures
Error Handling Flag and the "Err" Object
Regular Expression Pattern Match and Replacement
►scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL Library
Scripting Runtime DLL Library Overview
"Dictionary" Objects to Store Keys and Values
"FileSystemObject" Objects to Manage File Systems
►"Drive" Objects Representing Disk Drives
"Folder" Objects Representing File Folders
"File" Objects Representing Files
"TextStream" Objects Representing File Input and Output
IE Web Browser Supporting VBScript