Retrieving available drives?

[fuzzy70]

Hi all, I am currently writing a simple file requester for a program I'm working on (keyboard controlled at the moment but will progress to graphical at some point) & have hit a stumbling block.
I need to be able to access different drives including optical ones but as yet not found a way to select them other than the root directory of the current drive.

There is 2 reasons why I am not using the inbuilt command. First it's windows only & I will be using the final program on occasion in Linux, second it crashes everytime I call it when in debug mode which is every run so far till the program is complete :-).

Any help/ideas would be great.

Cheers

Lee


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[MrTAToad]

With Windows, you might need to call GetLogicalDriveStrings  or a variant.  For Linux, I wouldn't know unfortunately.

[fuzzy70]

Linux is easy as no matter how many drives/partitions you have they are all accessible from the root folder in /media or /mount depending on distribution.

Will have a look at what you mentioned MrT & see where that leads me :-). Thanks

Lee

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