Cycling 74 » Topic: listing drives and partitions in XP http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/feed Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-25118 <![CDATA[listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-25118 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:51:14 +0000 Peter Nyboer In OSX, i can easily get the names of the drives and partitions using a
folder object (or Folder() in js) with the path
“/Volumes”.
is there an analog in XP?

thx.

p.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73577 <![CDATA[Re: listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73577 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:08:30 +0000 nesa not quite analog, but you could use f.e’s doshack, and start mountvol xp
utility to get a list of available volumes.

you could execute mountvol|find “:”>temp_file.txt, and then load that file
in max and analize it.

temp_file.txt contains these strings:

C:
D:
F:

wich is probaly all you need.

now that i wrote this, i have a feeling there’s something better around
there… Also, I’m not sure if this can list network resources…

hth,
nesa

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73578 <![CDATA[Re: listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73578 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:02:26 +0000 Peter Nyboer hmmm…could work. ugly, but possibly functional :)
thanks for the thoughts…

p.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73579 <![CDATA[Re: listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73579 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:12:30 +0000 f.e I’m sure Python does; i guess Java too…

f.e

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73580 <![CDATA[Re: listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73580 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:27:22 +0000 f.e ugly, ugly, not so ugly at all :-)
I know you don’t like Java externals, Peter, but a “VOL n:” request to
my DOSHack external will give you the name of n: (if you can split if
from the end of the string it’s part of !!). Allright, i should write a
“what’s my disk name” function, to automatically do the job…

cheers

f.e

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73581 <![CDATA[Re: listing drives and partitions in XP]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/listing-drives-and-partitions-in-xp/#post-73581 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:05:24 +0000 Peter Nyboer ugly only in that the suggestion requires writing to a text file, and
then reading that in.
and ugly in making this work with other stuff I have.
and ugly because I pretty much CAN’T use java externals – it’s not that
I don’t like them, specifications keep me from using them :(

p

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