| Info : |
| Drive Explorer is just a simple small program that shows all the drives presented on your computer. It scans your machine for all drive devices and showes a few information about them. I created this when learning more about getting information about CD drives that I needed for another project (watch funtom.d2.cz for more). As this program is freeware you can freely distribute it. If you like this small utility, feel free to give me a notice to funtom@email.cz. |
| Drives information : |
| Well, let's see what this program can tell you: |
| Drive |
letter of the current drive, small icon represents the drive type |
| Type |
| there are few types of drives that you can have in your computer: |
| removable |
usually drives with removable diskettes (ea. Floppy, ZIP, etc.) |
| fixed |
Hard Drives or in fact its partitions |
| network |
drives connected to the computer through local network |
| cd drive |
not only CD-ROM but also CD-R, CD-RW or DVD drives (system don't care, at least not on this level) |
| ram disk |
virtual disk created in memory of computer |
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| there are also 2 other states, that can occur: |
| <can't get> |
system was unable to obtain information about type of the drive [I've never got this message] |
| <n/a> |
the drive is not available (this could happen when the drive disappears during the scanning) [you should not get this message] |
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| Label |
| showes the name of the current disk or partition (Volume Label) |
| here you can see some program messages as well: |
| <no label> |
the disk has no label |
| <disabled> |
getting label is normally disabled for removable drives (it takes some time until the system finds out there's no diskette in the drive), you can enable it in options |
| <n/a> |
error while trying to get volume label |
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| Description |
description of the disk as it stores your system (only for removable, fixed and cd drives), displaying description can be turned off (see Options) |
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| Options : |
| Drive Explorer has only a few options to set: |
| Show diskette label |
enables getting labels of removable drives (defaultly disabled) |
| Show drive description |
enables showing drive description |
| Refresh on drive change |
refreshes the list of drives whenever any drive state changes (ea. you insert or remove a CD) |
| Refresh on new option |
refreshes the list when you change one of the options (one of the first two...) |
| Stay on top |
makes the window stay over all other opened windows |
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| Keyboard : |
| Here are those few shortcuts that can ease your work: |
| F1 |
displys this help. |
| F5 |
as usually this refreshes the drive list. |
| ENTER |
when you choose one drive from list and press ENTER, you can browse it. The same happens when you double-clicks on it. |
| Ctrl-X |
closes the whole program, you can close it by hitting ESCAPE es well. |
| Each item in Options menu has its own shortcut (you won't need them much often): |
| Options |
| F7 |
Show diskette label |
| F8 |
Show drive description |
| F9 |
Refresh on drive change |
| F10 |
Refresh on options change |
| F12 |
Stay on top |
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| History : |
| As the time passed or What's new: |
1.0.1
(2002/07/08) |
Welcome DriveExplorer! |
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| Contact : |
Programmed by FunTOM
home: http://funtom.d2.cz
e-mail: funtom@email.cz
Drive Explorer home: http://funtom.d2.cz/drivex
(Search for new versions or register in mailing-list on this page)
For any bug reports, special questions, notices or advises pleas mail to funtom@email.cz
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| created by FunTOM in July 2002 | last change: 02/07/08 | funtom.d2.cz/drivex |