How to Display All Drives into the ListView Using VB.Net

Submitted by janobe on Friday, November 16, 2018 - 20:36.

This tutorial that I’m going to teach you is about how to display all drives into the listview using Vb.Net. This method is useful when you have to display the computer drives in the listview. With this, you will be able to see and have an idea what drives are available on your computer. Simply follow the instructions below and you will be done in no time.

Creating Application

Step 1

Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and create a new windows form application. drives321

Step 2

Do the Form just like shown below. drive123

Step 3

Go to the code view, create a sub procedure for retrieving all drives.

 Private Sub retrieveDrives()
        ListView1.Items.Clear()
        Dim inc As Integer = 0
        For Each drive As IO.DriveInfo In IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives
            Dim drivename As String = drive.Name
            Dim driveType As String = ""
            Dim driveltr As String = drive.Name
            If drive.IsReady AndAlso drive.VolumeLabel <> "" Then
                drivename = drive.VolumeLabel
            Else
                Select Case drive.DriveType
                    Case IO.DriveType.Fixed : drivename = "Local Disk"
                    Case IO.DriveType.CDRom : drivename = "CD-ROM"
                    Case IO.DriveType.Network : drivename = "Network Drive"
                    Case IO.DriveType.Removable : drivename = "Removable Disk"
                End Select
 
            End If
            Select Case drive.DriveType
                Case IO.DriveType.Fixed : driveType = "Local Disk"
                Case IO.DriveType.CDRom : driveType = "CD-ROM"
                Case IO.DriveType.Network : driveType = "Network Drive"
                Case IO.DriveType.Removable : driveType = "Removable Disk"
            End Select
            ListView1.Items.Add(drivename)
            ListView1.Items(inc).SubItems.Add(driveltr)
            ListView1.Items(inc).SubItems.Add(driveType)
            inc += 1
        Next
    End Sub

Step 4

Double click the button and call the method that you have created to execute when the button is clicked.

  Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        retrieveDrives()
    End Sub

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