How to Detect CD-ROM is loaded in the CD-ROM drive

Andrew Rissing

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5 Dec 2011CPOL

Or you could just do the following without using System.Management:foreach (var driveInfo in DriveInfo.GetDrives().Where(x => x.DriveType == DriveType.CDRom)){ if (driveInfo.IsReady) Console.WriteLine("CD is ready in drive: " + driveInfo.Name); else Console.WriteLine("CD...

Or you could just do the following without using System.Management:

foreach (var driveInfo in DriveInfo.GetDrives().Where(x => x.DriveType == DriveType.CDRom))
{
  if (driveInfo.IsReady)
    Console.WriteLine("CD is ready in drive: " + driveInfo.Name);
  else
    Console.WriteLine("CD is not ready in drive: " + driveInfo.Name);
}

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How to Detect CD-ROM is loaded in the CD-ROM drive

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