How to determine if a CD is in CD-ROM drive
I was wondering if there is a Windows API that can tell me if there is a empty CD is inside a CD-ROM/DVD-Rom drive.
I've already looked at GetVolumeInformation(), but that only brings back information on the actual CD-ROM drive, not the media that is inside it, if there's even a CD in it or not.
All I'm trying to do is see if there's a cd in the drive or not and return a boolean value.
Thanks for any help
Call GetFileAttributes()
on the root directory. GetFileAttributes()
is quite optimized as it's commonly used as a check whether a file or directory exists.
Another method is to call GetDiskFreeSpace
, which (despite its name) also returns the total disk size.
The Shell also has some useful functions. SHGetDriveMedia
will tell you what's loaded, but you should first call GetDriveType()
.
The API you're looking for is most probably IMAPI.
I think this article here could be of help for you http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163992.aspx