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How to know free space & usage space in hard drive programatically

SIVA

Dear all,

I have 4 drives in my system..

I need to know the following details in my drives programatically..
Total space
Free space
usage space

I have to find this details in either VB Script or else any other programming language..

Thank you

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Vulpes14y ago
Accepted answer
If you're using .NET, you can get this information using the System.IO.DriveInfo class.

Check out the example in the MSDN docs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.driveinfo.aspx
Glenn Sanchez14y ago
I think you can also use performance counters. Check this out: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8590/An-Introduction-To-Performance-Counters