How to list physical disks

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How to list physical disks in Windows  In order to obtain a list of        PhysicalDrive0  available

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GetLogicalDrives   enumerates all mounted disk partitions  not physical drives   You can enumerate the drive letters with  or without  GetLogicalDrives  then call QueryDosDevice   to find out which physical drive the letter is mapped to   Alternatively  you can decode the information in the registry at HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM MountedDevices   The binary data encodings there are not obvious  however   If you have a copy of Russinovich and Solomon s book Microsoft Windows Internals  this registry hive is discussed in Chapter 10

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Might want to include the old A  and B  drives as you never know who might be using them  I got tired of USB drives bumping my two SDHC drives that are just for Readyboost  I had been assigning them to High letters Z  Y  with a utility that will assign drive letters to devices as you wish   I wondered      Can I make a Readyboost drive letter A    YES  Can I put my second SDHC drive letter as B    YES   I ve used Floppy Drives back in the day  never thought that A  or B  would come in handy for Readyboost     My point is  don t assume A   amp  B  will not be used by anyone for anything You might even find the old SUBST command being used

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I just ran across this in my RSS Reader today  I ve got a cleaner solution for you  This example is in Delphi  but can very easily be converted to C C    It s all Win32    Query all value names from the following registry location   HKLM SYSTEM MountedDevices  One by one  pass them into the following function and you will be returned the device name  Pretty clean and simple  I found this code on a blog here   function VolumeNameToDeviceName const VolName  String   String  var   s  String    TargetPath  Array 0  MAX PATH  of WideChar    bSucceeded  Boolean  begin   Result              VolumeName has a format like this      Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963        We need to strip this to Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963    s     Copy VolName  5  Length VolName  - 5      bSucceeded    QueryDosDeviceW PWideChar WideString s    TargetPath  MAX PATH   lt  gt  0    if bSucceeded then   begin     Result    TargetPath    end   else begin        raise exception   end   end

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Thic WMIC command combination works fine   wmic volume list brief

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This might be 5 years too late     But as I see no answer for this yet  adding this   We can use Setup APIs to get the list of disks ie   devices in the system implementing GUID DEVINTERFACE DISK    Once we have their device paths  we can issue IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER to construct      PHYSICALDRIVE d  with STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER DeviceNumber  See also SetupDiGetClassDevs function   include  lt Windows h gt   include  lt Setupapi h gt   include  lt Ntddstor h gt    pragma comment  lib   setupapi lib      include  lt iostream gt   include  lt string gt  using namespace std    define START ERROR CHK                   DWORD error   ERROR SUCCESS           DWORD failedLine                      string failedApi    define CHK  expr  api                    if      expr                              error   GetLastError                  failedLine     LINE                   failedApi     api                     goto Error Exit                       define END ERROR CHK                     error   ERROR SUCCESS                 Error Exit                            if   ERROR SUCCESS    error               cout  lt  lt  failedApi  lt  lt    failed at    lt  lt  failedLine  lt  lt      Error Code -    lt  lt  error  lt  lt  endl              int main  int argc  char   argv          HDEVINFO diskClassDevices      GUID diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid   GUID DEVINTERFACE DISK      SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA deviceInterfaceData      PSP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA deviceInterfaceDetailData      DWORD requiredSize      DWORD deviceIndex       HANDLE disk   INVALID HANDLE VALUE      STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER diskNumber      DWORD bytesReturned       START ERROR CHK                   Get the handle to the device information set for installed        disk class devices  Returns only devices that are currently        present in the system and have an enabled disk device        interface             diskClassDevices   SetupDiGetClassDevs   amp diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid                                              NULL                                              NULL                                              DIGCF PRESENT                                               DIGCF DEVICEINTERFACE        CHK  INVALID HANDLE VALUE    diskClassDevices            SetupDiGetClassDevs          ZeroMemory   amp deviceInterfaceData  sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA          deviceInterfaceData cbSize   sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA        deviceIndex   0       while   SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces  diskClassDevices                                           NULL                                            amp diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid                                           deviceIndex                                            amp deviceInterfaceData                  deviceIndex           SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail  diskClassDevices                                            amp deviceInterfaceData                                           NULL                                           0                                            amp requiredSize                                           NULL            CHK  ERROR INSUFFICIENT BUFFER    GetLastError                   SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail - 1              deviceInterfaceDetailData     PSP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA   malloc  requiredSize            CHK  NULL    deviceInterfaceDetailData                malloc              ZeroMemory  deviceInterfaceDetailData  requiredSize            deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt cbSize   sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA             CHK  SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail  diskClassDevices                                                 amp deviceInterfaceData                                                deviceInterfaceDetailData                                                requiredSize                                                NULL                                                NULL                  SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail - 2              disk   CreateFile  deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt DevicePath                             GENERIC READ                             FILE SHARE READ   FILE SHARE WRITE                             NULL                             OPEN EXISTING                             FILE ATTRIBUTE NORMAL                             NULL            CHK  INVALID HANDLE VALUE    disk                CreateFile              CHK  DeviceIoControl  disk                                IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER                                NULL                                0                                 amp diskNumber                                sizeof  STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER                                   amp bytesReturned                                NULL                  IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER              CloseHandle  disk            disk   INVALID HANDLE VALUE           cout  lt  lt  deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt DevicePath  lt  lt  endl          cout  lt  lt          PhysicalDrive   lt  lt  diskNumber DeviceNumber  lt  lt  endl          cout  lt  lt  endl            CHK  ERROR NO MORE ITEMS    GetLastError               SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces          END ERROR CHK     Exit       if   INVALID HANDLE VALUE    diskClassDevices             SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList  diskClassDevices               if   INVALID HANDLE VALUE    disk             CloseHandle  disk               return error

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If you only need to look at the existing disks  this one will suffice  powershell  quot get-physicaldisk quot

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I ve modified an open-source program called  dskwipe  in order to pull this disk information out of it  Dskwipe is written in C  and you can pull this function out of it  The binary and source are available here  dskwipe 0 3 has been released  The returned information will look something like this   Device Name                         Size Type      Partition Type ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------------------     PhysicalDrive0               40 0 GB Fixed     PhysicalDrive1               80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition0     40 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition1     40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS  Device Harddisk1 Partition0     80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk1 Partition1     80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     C                            80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     D                             2 1 GB Fixed     FAT32     E                            40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS

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The only sure shot way to do this is to call CreateFile   on all     Physicaldiskx where x is from 0 to 15  16 is maximum number of disks allowed   Check the returned handle value  If invalid check GetLastError   for ERROR FILE NOT FOUND  If it returns anything else then the disk exists but you cannot access it for some reason

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If you want  physical  access  we re developing this API that will eventually allows you to communicate with storage devices  It s open source and you can see the current code for some information  Check back for more features  https   github com virtium vtStor

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Make a list of all letters in the US English Alphabet  skipping a  amp  b   CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ   Open each of those drives with CreateFile e g  CreateFile      C     If it does not return INVALID HANDLE VALUE then you got a  good  drive  Next take that handle and run it through DeviceIoControl to get the Disk    See my related answer for more details

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WMIC  wmic is a very complete tool  wmic diskdrive list   provide a  too much  detailed list  for instance  for less info   wmic diskdrive list brief    C  Sebastian Godelet mentions in the comments      In C    system  wmic diskdrive list      As commented  you can also call the WinAPI  but    as shown in  How to obtain data from WMI using a C Application    this is quite complex  and generally done with C    not C    PowerShell  Or with PowerShell   Get-WmiObject Win32 DiskDrive

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Here is a new solution of doing it with doing WMI calls  Then all you need to do is just to call      queryAndPrintResult L SELECT   FROM Win32 DiskDrive   L Name

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Might want to include the old A  and B  drives as you never know who might be using them  I got tired of USB drives bumping my two SDHC drives that are just for Readyboost  I had been assigning them to High letters Z  Y  with a utility that will assign drive letters to devices as you wish   I wondered      Can I make a Readyboost drive letter A    YES  Can I put my second SDHC drive letter as B    YES   I ve used Floppy Drives back in the day  never thought that A  or B  would come in handy for Readyboost     My point is  don t assume A   amp  B  will not be used by anyone for anything You might even find the old SUBST command being used

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GetLogicalDrives   enumerates all mounted disk partitions  not physical drives   You can enumerate the drive letters with  or without  GetLogicalDrives  then call QueryDosDevice   to find out which physical drive the letter is mapped to   Alternatively  you can decode the information in the registry at HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM MountedDevices   The binary data encodings there are not obvious  however   If you have a copy of Russinovich and Solomon s book Microsoft Windows Internals  this registry hive is discussed in Chapter 10

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I just ran across this in my RSS Reader today  I ve got a cleaner solution for you  This example is in Delphi  but can very easily be converted to C C    It s all Win32    Query all value names from the following registry location   HKLM SYSTEM MountedDevices  One by one  pass them into the following function and you will be returned the device name  Pretty clean and simple  I found this code on a blog here   function VolumeNameToDeviceName const VolName  String   String  var   s  String    TargetPath  Array 0  MAX PATH  of WideChar    bSucceeded  Boolean  begin   Result              VolumeName has a format like this      Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963        We need to strip this to Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963    s     Copy VolName  5  Length VolName  - 5      bSucceeded    QueryDosDeviceW PWideChar WideString s    TargetPath  MAX PATH   lt  gt  0    if bSucceeded then   begin     Result    TargetPath    end   else begin        raise exception   end   end

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I ve modified an open-source program called  dskwipe  in order to pull this disk information out of it  Dskwipe is written in C  and you can pull this function out of it  The binary and source are available here  dskwipe 0 3 has been released  The returned information will look something like this   Device Name                         Size Type      Partition Type ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------------------     PhysicalDrive0               40 0 GB Fixed     PhysicalDrive1               80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition0     40 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition1     40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS  Device Harddisk1 Partition0     80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk1 Partition1     80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     C                            80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     D                             2 1 GB Fixed     FAT32     E                            40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS

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The only correct answer is the one by  Grodriguez  and here s a code that he was too lazy to write    include  lt windows h gt   include  lt iostream gt   include  lt bitset gt   include  lt vector gt  using namespace std   typedef struct  DISK EXTENT       DWORD         DiskNumber      LARGE INTEGER StartingOffset      LARGE INTEGER ExtentLength    DISK EXTENT   PDISK EXTENT   typedef struct  VOLUME DISK EXTENTS       DWORD       NumberOfDiskExtents      DISK EXTENT Extents ANYSIZE ARRAY     VOLUME DISK EXTENTS   PVOLUME DISK EXTENTS    define CTL CODE DeviceType  Function  Method  Access           DeviceType   lt  lt  16      Access   lt  lt  14      Function   lt  lt  2     Method    define IOCTL VOLUME BASE   DWORD  V    define METHOD BUFFERED 0  define FILE ANY ACCESS 0x00000000  define IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS CTL CODE IOCTL VOLUME BASE  0  METHOD BUFFERED  FILE ANY ACCESS   int main         bitset lt 32 gt  drives GetLogicalDrives         vector lt char gt  goodDrives      for  char c    A   c  lt    Z     c            if  drives c -  A                  if  GetDriveType  c   string         c str       DRIVE FIXED                    goodDrives push back c                                     for  auto  amp  drive   goodDrives            string s   string              drive                HANDLE h   CreateFileA              s c str    GENERIC READ  FILE SHARE READ   FILE SHARE WRITE  NULL              OPEN EXISTING  FILE FLAG NO BUFFERING   FILE FLAG RANDOM ACCESS  NULL                    if  h    INVALID HANDLE VALUE                cerr  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       cannot be opened               continue                    DWORD bytesReturned          VOLUME DISK EXTENTS vde          if   DeviceIoControl              h  IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS              NULL  0   amp vde  sizeof vde    amp bytesReturned  NULL                          cerr  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       cannot be mapped into physical drive               continue                    cout  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       is on the following physical drives             for  int i   0  i  lt  vde NumberOfDiskExtents    i                cout  lt  lt  vde Extents i  DiskNumber  lt  lt                         cout  lt  lt  endl            I think that installation of Windows Driver Development Kit is quite a lengthy process  so I ve included the declarations one needs to use DeviceIoControl for this task

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GetLogicalDrives   enumerates all mounted disk partitions  not physical drives   You can enumerate the drive letters with  or without  GetLogicalDrives  then call QueryDosDevice   to find out which physical drive the letter is mapped to   Alternatively  you can decode the information in the registry at HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM MountedDevices   The binary data encodings there are not obvious  however   If you have a copy of Russinovich and Solomon s book Microsoft Windows Internals  this registry hive is discussed in Chapter 10

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If you only need to look at the existing disks  this one will suffice  powershell  quot get-physicaldisk quot

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The only correct answer is the one by  Grodriguez  and here s a code that he was too lazy to write    include  lt windows h gt   include  lt iostream gt   include  lt bitset gt   include  lt vector gt  using namespace std   typedef struct  DISK EXTENT       DWORD         DiskNumber      LARGE INTEGER StartingOffset      LARGE INTEGER ExtentLength    DISK EXTENT   PDISK EXTENT   typedef struct  VOLUME DISK EXTENTS       DWORD       NumberOfDiskExtents      DISK EXTENT Extents ANYSIZE ARRAY     VOLUME DISK EXTENTS   PVOLUME DISK EXTENTS    define CTL CODE DeviceType  Function  Method  Access           DeviceType   lt  lt  16      Access   lt  lt  14      Function   lt  lt  2     Method    define IOCTL VOLUME BASE   DWORD  V    define METHOD BUFFERED 0  define FILE ANY ACCESS 0x00000000  define IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS CTL CODE IOCTL VOLUME BASE  0  METHOD BUFFERED  FILE ANY ACCESS   int main         bitset lt 32 gt  drives GetLogicalDrives         vector lt char gt  goodDrives      for  char c    A   c  lt    Z     c            if  drives c -  A                  if  GetDriveType  c   string         c str       DRIVE FIXED                    goodDrives push back c                                     for  auto  amp  drive   goodDrives            string s   string              drive                HANDLE h   CreateFileA              s c str    GENERIC READ  FILE SHARE READ   FILE SHARE WRITE  NULL              OPEN EXISTING  FILE FLAG NO BUFFERING   FILE FLAG RANDOM ACCESS  NULL                    if  h    INVALID HANDLE VALUE                cerr  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       cannot be opened               continue                    DWORD bytesReturned          VOLUME DISK EXTENTS vde          if   DeviceIoControl              h  IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS              NULL  0   amp vde  sizeof vde    amp bytesReturned  NULL                          cerr  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       cannot be mapped into physical drive               continue                    cout  lt  lt   Drive    lt  lt  drive  lt  lt       is on the following physical drives             for  int i   0  i  lt  vde NumberOfDiskExtents    i                cout  lt  lt  vde Extents i  DiskNumber  lt  lt                         cout  lt  lt  endl            I think that installation of Windows Driver Development Kit is quite a lengthy process  so I ve included the declarations one needs to use DeviceIoControl for this task

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WMIC  wmic is a very complete tool  wmic diskdrive list   provide a  too much  detailed list  for instance  for less info   wmic diskdrive list brief    C  Sebastian Godelet mentions in the comments      In C    system  wmic diskdrive list      As commented  you can also call the WinAPI  but    as shown in  How to obtain data from WMI using a C Application    this is quite complex  and generally done with C    not C    PowerShell  Or with PowerShell   Get-WmiObject Win32 DiskDrive

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Make a list of all letters in the US English Alphabet  skipping a  amp  b   CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ   Open each of those drives with CreateFile e g  CreateFile      C     If it does not return INVALID HANDLE VALUE then you got a  good  drive  Next take that handle and run it through DeviceIoControl to get the Disk    See my related answer for more details

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I ve modified an open-source program called  dskwipe  in order to pull this disk information out of it  Dskwipe is written in C  and you can pull this function out of it  The binary and source are available here  dskwipe 0 3 has been released  The returned information will look something like this   Device Name                         Size Type      Partition Type ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------------------     PhysicalDrive0               40 0 GB Fixed     PhysicalDrive1               80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition0     40 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition1     40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS  Device Harddisk1 Partition0     80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk1 Partition1     80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     C                            80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     D                             2 1 GB Fixed     FAT32     E                            40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS

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I just ran across this in my RSS Reader today  I ve got a cleaner solution for you  This example is in Delphi  but can very easily be converted to C C    It s all Win32    Query all value names from the following registry location   HKLM SYSTEM MountedDevices  One by one  pass them into the following function and you will be returned the device name  Pretty clean and simple  I found this code on a blog here   function VolumeNameToDeviceName const VolName  String   String  var   s  String    TargetPath  Array 0  MAX PATH  of WideChar    bSucceeded  Boolean  begin   Result              VolumeName has a format like this      Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963        We need to strip this to Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963    s     Copy VolName  5  Length VolName  - 5      bSucceeded    QueryDosDeviceW PWideChar WideString s    TargetPath  MAX PATH   lt  gt  0    if bSucceeded then   begin     Result    TargetPath    end   else begin        raise exception   end   end

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I just ran across this in my RSS Reader today  I ve got a cleaner solution for you  This example is in Delphi  but can very easily be converted to C C    It s all Win32    Query all value names from the following registry location   HKLM SYSTEM MountedDevices  One by one  pass them into the following function and you will be returned the device name  Pretty clean and simple  I found this code on a blog here   function VolumeNameToDeviceName const VolName  String   String  var   s  String    TargetPath  Array 0  MAX PATH  of WideChar    bSucceeded  Boolean  begin   Result              VolumeName has a format like this      Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963        We need to strip this to Volume c4ee0265-bada-11dd-9cd5-806e6f6e6963    s     Copy VolName  5  Length VolName  - 5      bSucceeded    QueryDosDeviceW PWideChar WideString s    TargetPath  MAX PATH   lt  gt  0    if bSucceeded then   begin     Result    TargetPath    end   else begin        raise exception   end   end

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GetLogicalDrives   enumerates all mounted disk partitions  not physical drives   You can enumerate the drive letters with  or without  GetLogicalDrives  then call QueryDosDevice   to find out which physical drive the letter is mapped to   Alternatively  you can decode the information in the registry at HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM MountedDevices   The binary data encodings there are not obvious  however   If you have a copy of Russinovich and Solomon s book Microsoft Windows Internals  this registry hive is discussed in Chapter 10

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This might be 5 years too late     But as I see no answer for this yet  adding this   We can use Setup APIs to get the list of disks ie   devices in the system implementing GUID DEVINTERFACE DISK    Once we have their device paths  we can issue IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER to construct      PHYSICALDRIVE d  with STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER DeviceNumber  See also SetupDiGetClassDevs function   include  lt Windows h gt   include  lt Setupapi h gt   include  lt Ntddstor h gt    pragma comment  lib   setupapi lib      include  lt iostream gt   include  lt string gt  using namespace std    define START ERROR CHK                   DWORD error   ERROR SUCCESS           DWORD failedLine                      string failedApi    define CHK  expr  api                    if      expr                              error   GetLastError                  failedLine     LINE                   failedApi     api                     goto Error Exit                       define END ERROR CHK                     error   ERROR SUCCESS                 Error Exit                            if   ERROR SUCCESS    error               cout  lt  lt  failedApi  lt  lt    failed at    lt  lt  failedLine  lt  lt      Error Code -    lt  lt  error  lt  lt  endl              int main  int argc  char   argv          HDEVINFO diskClassDevices      GUID diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid   GUID DEVINTERFACE DISK      SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA deviceInterfaceData      PSP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA deviceInterfaceDetailData      DWORD requiredSize      DWORD deviceIndex       HANDLE disk   INVALID HANDLE VALUE      STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER diskNumber      DWORD bytesReturned       START ERROR CHK                   Get the handle to the device information set for installed        disk class devices  Returns only devices that are currently        present in the system and have an enabled disk device        interface             diskClassDevices   SetupDiGetClassDevs   amp diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid                                              NULL                                              NULL                                              DIGCF PRESENT                                               DIGCF DEVICEINTERFACE        CHK  INVALID HANDLE VALUE    diskClassDevices            SetupDiGetClassDevs          ZeroMemory   amp deviceInterfaceData  sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA          deviceInterfaceData cbSize   sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DATA        deviceIndex   0       while   SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces  diskClassDevices                                           NULL                                            amp diskClassDeviceInterfaceGuid                                           deviceIndex                                            amp deviceInterfaceData                  deviceIndex           SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail  diskClassDevices                                            amp deviceInterfaceData                                           NULL                                           0                                            amp requiredSize                                           NULL            CHK  ERROR INSUFFICIENT BUFFER    GetLastError                   SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail - 1              deviceInterfaceDetailData     PSP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA   malloc  requiredSize            CHK  NULL    deviceInterfaceDetailData                malloc              ZeroMemory  deviceInterfaceDetailData  requiredSize            deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt cbSize   sizeof  SP DEVICE INTERFACE DETAIL DATA             CHK  SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail  diskClassDevices                                                 amp deviceInterfaceData                                                deviceInterfaceDetailData                                                requiredSize                                                NULL                                                NULL                  SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail - 2              disk   CreateFile  deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt DevicePath                             GENERIC READ                             FILE SHARE READ   FILE SHARE WRITE                             NULL                             OPEN EXISTING                             FILE ATTRIBUTE NORMAL                             NULL            CHK  INVALID HANDLE VALUE    disk                CreateFile              CHK  DeviceIoControl  disk                                IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER                                NULL                                0                                 amp diskNumber                                sizeof  STORAGE DEVICE NUMBER                                   amp bytesReturned                                NULL                  IOCTL STORAGE GET DEVICE NUMBER              CloseHandle  disk            disk   INVALID HANDLE VALUE           cout  lt  lt  deviceInterfaceDetailData- gt DevicePath  lt  lt  endl          cout  lt  lt          PhysicalDrive   lt  lt  diskNumber DeviceNumber  lt  lt  endl          cout  lt  lt  endl            CHK  ERROR NO MORE ITEMS    GetLastError               SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces          END ERROR CHK     Exit       if   INVALID HANDLE VALUE    diskClassDevices             SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList  diskClassDevices               if   INVALID HANDLE VALUE    disk             CloseHandle  disk               return error

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Here is a new solution of doing it with doing WMI calls  Then all you need to do is just to call      queryAndPrintResult L SELECT   FROM Win32 DiskDrive   L Name

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The only sure shot way to do this is to call CreateFile   on all     Physicaldiskx where x is from 0 to 15  16 is maximum number of disks allowed   Check the returned handle value  If invalid check GetLastError   for ERROR FILE NOT FOUND  If it returns anything else then the disk exists but you cannot access it for some reason

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WMIC  wmic is a very complete tool  wmic diskdrive list   provide a  too much  detailed list  for instance  for less info   wmic diskdrive list brief    C  Sebastian Godelet mentions in the comments      In C    system  wmic diskdrive list      As commented  you can also call the WinAPI  but    as shown in  How to obtain data from WMI using a C Application    this is quite complex  and generally done with C    not C    PowerShell  Or with PowerShell   Get-WmiObject Win32 DiskDrive

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One way to do it    Enumerate logical drives using GetLogicalDrives For each logical drive  open a file named      X    without the quotes  where X is the logical drive letter  Call DeviceIoControl passing the handle to the file opened in the previous step  and the dwIoControlCode parameter set to IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS   HANDLE hHandle  VOLUME DISK EXTENTS diskExtents  DWORD dwSize         iRes   DeviceIoControl      hHandle      IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS      NULL      0       LPVOID   amp diskExtents       DWORD  sizeof diskExtents        LPDWORD   amp dwSize      NULL      This returns information of the physical location of a logical volume  as a VOLUME DISK EXTENTS structure   In the simple case where the volume resides on a single physical drive  the physical drive number is available in diskExtents Extents 0  DiskNumber

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The answer is far simpler than all the above answers  The physical drive list is actually stored in a Registry key which also gives the device mapping   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services disk Enum  Count is the number of PhysicalDrive  and each numbered Registry Value is the corresponding physical drive   For example  Registry Value  0  is PhysicalDrive0  The value is the actual device PhysicalDrive0 is mapped to  The value contained here can be passed into CM Locate DevNode within parameter pDeviceID to use the plug and play services  This will allow you to gather a wealth of information on the device  Such as the properties from Device Manager like  Friendly Display Name  if you need a name for the drive  serial numbers and more   There is no need for WMI services which may not be running on the system or other hackery and this functionality has been present in Windows since at least 2000 and continues to be the case in Windows 10

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The answer is far simpler than all the above answers  The physical drive list is actually stored in a Registry key which also gives the device mapping   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services disk Enum  Count is the number of PhysicalDrive  and each numbered Registry Value is the corresponding physical drive   For example  Registry Value  0  is PhysicalDrive0  The value is the actual device PhysicalDrive0 is mapped to  The value contained here can be passed into CM Locate DevNode within parameter pDeviceID to use the plug and play services  This will allow you to gather a wealth of information on the device  Such as the properties from Device Manager like  Friendly Display Name  if you need a name for the drive  serial numbers and more   There is no need for WMI services which may not be running on the system or other hackery and this functionality has been present in Windows since at least 2000 and continues to be the case in Windows 10

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Thic WMIC command combination works fine   wmic volume list brief

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One way to do it    Enumerate logical drives using GetLogicalDrives For each logical drive  open a file named      X    without the quotes  where X is the logical drive letter  Call DeviceIoControl passing the handle to the file opened in the previous step  and the dwIoControlCode parameter set to IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS   HANDLE hHandle  VOLUME DISK EXTENTS diskExtents  DWORD dwSize         iRes   DeviceIoControl      hHandle      IOCTL VOLUME GET VOLUME DISK EXTENTS      NULL      0       LPVOID   amp diskExtents       DWORD  sizeof diskExtents        LPDWORD   amp dwSize      NULL      This returns information of the physical location of a logical volume  as a VOLUME DISK EXTENTS structure   In the simple case where the volume resides on a single physical drive  the physical drive number is available in diskExtents Extents 0  DiskNumber

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WMIC  wmic is a very complete tool  wmic diskdrive list   provide a  too much  detailed list  for instance  for less info   wmic diskdrive list brief    C  Sebastian Godelet mentions in the comments      In C    system  wmic diskdrive list      As commented  you can also call the WinAPI  but    as shown in  How to obtain data from WMI using a C Application    this is quite complex  and generally done with C    not C    PowerShell  Or with PowerShell   Get-WmiObject Win32 DiskDrive

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If you want  physical  access  we re developing this API that will eventually allows you to communicate with storage devices  It s open source and you can see the current code for some information  Check back for more features  https   github com virtium vtStor

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I ve modified an open-source program called  dskwipe  in order to pull this disk information out of it  Dskwipe is written in C  and you can pull this function out of it  The binary and source are available here  dskwipe 0 3 has been released  The returned information will look something like this   Device Name                         Size Type      Partition Type ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------------------     PhysicalDrive0               40 0 GB Fixed     PhysicalDrive1               80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition0     40 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk0 Partition1     40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS  Device Harddisk1 Partition0     80 0 GB Fixed  Device Harddisk1 Partition1     80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     C                            80 0 GB Fixed     NTFS     D                             2 1 GB Fixed     FAT32     E                            40 0 GB Fixed     NTFS

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