is there any c# class which can be use to retrieve total number of hard disk partitions or other information ?

Question

i need to retrieve HDD related information like total number of partitions,in which driver OS is installed etc. programmatically in c#.any one here to help ?

possible duplicate of [List All Partitions On Disk](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6575727/list-all-partitions-on-disk) — Tim Schmelter, Sep 27 '13 at 07:47
This may be helpful: [How to I retrieve disk information in C#](http://stackoverflow.com/q/412632/646543) — Michael0x2a, Sep 27 '13 at 07:48
Check the `Environment` class for the answers on some parts of your question. — Andrei V, Sep 27 '13 at 07:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 07:57

You can get available HDD related information from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394132(VS.85).aspx

sample:

ManagementClass sampleClass= new ManagementClass("Win32_DiskDrive");
ManagementObjectCollection SampleDrive= driveClass.GetInstances();
string Information="";
foreach (ManagementObject drives in SampleDrive) 
{ 

    foreach (PropertyData HDDproperty in drives .Properties)
    {
        Information +="HDDProperty: {0}, HDDValue: {1}", HDDproperty .Name, HDDproperty .Value);        
    }

}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 08:01

For most information, you can use the DriveInfo class.

using System;
using System.IO;

class Info {
    public static void Main() {
        DriveInfo[] drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
        foreach (DriveInfo drive in drives) {
            //There are more attributes you can use.
            //Check the MSDN link for a complete example.
            Console.WriteLine(drive.Name);
            if (drive.IsReady) Console.WriteLine(drive.TotalSize);
        }
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 07:51

0

WMI to rescue

You can use WMI queries to fetch information about system.

Example to fetch OS information related to OS

Other WMI samples

answered Sep 27 '13 at 07:51

Rumit Parakhiya

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is there any c# class which can be use to retrieve total number of hard disk partitions or other information ?

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