How can I detect if there is a floppy in a drive?

Question

I tried to use DriveInfo.IsReady, but it returns false if an unformatted floppy is in the drive.

Answer 1

Jonas stuff worked:

bool MyDll::Class1::HasFloppy( wchar_t driveLetter ) {
wchar_t path[] = L"\\\\.\\A:";
path[ 4 ] = driveLetter;

SetLastError( 0 );
HANDLE drive = CreateFile( path, //__in      LPCTSTR lpFileName,
           GENERIC_READ,     //__in      DWORD dwDesiredAccess,
           0,                //__in      DWORD dwShareMode,
           0,                //__in_opt  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes,
           OPEN_EXISTING,    //__in      DWORD dwCreationDisposition,
           0,                //__in      DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes,
           0                 //__in_opt  HANDLE hTemplateFile
);

DWORD bytes_read;
char buf[ 512 ];
DWORD err( 0 );
if( !ReadFile( drive, buf, 512, &bytes_read, 0 ) )
    err = GetLastError();

CloseHandle( drive );
return err != ERROR_NOT_READY;

}