Need help differentiate between real and virtual drives....

[Dougiefresh]

I have this code:

#include <string.au3>

Dim $MOUNT = "HKLM" & $PROC & "\SYSTEM\MountedDevices", $TYPE, $ICON, $LIST

$LIST = DriveGetDrive( "CDROM" )
if NOT @error then
    For $i = 1 to $LIST[ 0 ]
        $TYPE = _HexToString( StringReplace( RegRead( $MOUNT, "\DosDevices\" & $TDrv ), "00", "" ) )
        $ICON = _Iif( StringInStr( $Type, "DVD" ) <> 0, 2, _Iif( StringInStr( $Type, "CD" ) <> 0, 1, 3 ) )
        MsgBox( 0, "", $LIST[ $i ] & " is a " & _IIf( $ICON = 1, "CD-ROM", _IIf( $ICON = 2, "DVD-ROM", "Virtual" ) ) )
    Next
endif

It doesn't display the "Virtual" string for my virtual drive. I've tried the following code:

$ICON = _IIf( StringInStr( $TYPE = "SCSI" ) <> 0, 3, _IIf( StringInStr( $Type, "DVD" ) <> 0, 2, 1 ) )

But it reports Serial ATA DVD-RW drives as virtual, because the controllers they are on are reported to Windows as SCSI. (Huh?) Is there any reliable way to differentiate between real and virtual drives, using WMI? Thanks in advance!

[Dougiefresh]

bump....

[Dougiefresh]

Bump.... Anybody have any ideas? Any assistance would be appreciated!

[ReFran]

Perhaps a deeper look into the FileSystemObject gives you what you want.

Best regards, Reinhard

Example: DriveTypes

;; Get DriveType
$oFs = ObjCreate("scripting.FileSystemObject")

$drives = $oFs.Drives
for $drive in $Drives
    $x = $drive.DriveType
    if $x = 1 then $y = "Removable"
    if $x = 2 then $y = "Harddrive"
    if $x = 3 then $y = "Remote/NetDrive"
    if $x = 4 then $y = "Cd-Rom"
    if $x = 5 Then $y = "RamDisk"
    if $x = 0 then $y = "I don't know"
    MsgBox(0,"", $x &"=" & $y )
next

[Dougiefresh]

Thanks for the reply, ReFran! I just looked into your suggestion. Since Alcohol 120% appears to Windows as an optical drive, the driver reports the drive as a CD/DVD drive. I also got this from the internal AutoIT function DriveGetDrive.

I looked further into the Scripting thingy call online and can't find anything that might suggest that a particular drive is a virtual and not a physical drive....

Edited December 25, 2008 by Dougiefresh

[Christopher]

I think the problem is that Alcohol 120% wants it to be indistinguishable from a real drive. If it was just as easy as asking "hey, are you a virtual drive?", it'd be easier on a bunch of the copy-protections for games and such... which would limit its usefulness in backing up your software.

I don't have any way of checking this out myself (I don't have Alcohol 120%), but I'd imagine that there must be a configuration file/registery entry somewhere for it for Alcohol 120% that lists its virtual drives, assuming that you only need it to detect for that one program. However, if you want a truly general case method of determining if it's virtual or not, I doubt it's possible.

[Dougiefresh]

Well, that makes sense.... I've tried to locate a registry setting that might indicate which drives are virtual or such without success. So, I'm giving up the ghost on the hope that this is possible. Thanks!