Get drive label in C#

Question

When I use System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives() and look at the .VolumeLabel property of one of the drives, I see \"PATRIOT XT\", which is indeed the dr

Answer 1

Thanks for tip about autorun.inf. Here is the C# fragment which I created to retrieve the label.

private string GetDriveLabelFromAutorunInf(string drivename)
    {
        try
        {
            string filepathAutorunInf = Path.Combine(drivename, "autorun.Inf");
            string stringInputLine = "";
            if (File.Exists(filepathAutorunInf))
            {
                StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(filepathAutorunInf);
                while ((stringInputLine = streamReader.ReadLine()) != null) 
                  {
                      if (stringInputLine.StartsWith("label="))
                          return stringInputLine.Substring(startIndex:6);
                  }
                return "";
            }
            else return "";
        }
        #region generic catch exception, display message box, and terminate
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.StackTrace trace = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace(exception, true);
            MessageBox.Show(string.Format("{0} Exception:\n{1}\n{2}\n\n{3}\n\nMethod={4}   Line={5}   Column={6}",
                    trace.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Module,
                    exception.Message,
                    exception.StackTrace,
                    exception.ToString(),
                    trace.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name,
                    trace.GetFrame(0).GetFileLineNumber(),
                    trace.GetFrame(0).GetFileColumnNumber()),
                "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            Environment.Exit(1);
            return "";      // to keep compiler happy
        }
        #endregion
    }