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From: Marc
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:43

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Hi

I already posted this question on ms_compatibility, but Alex 
from TeamB suggested posting here instead, hopefully this group
will bring me more luck.

I want to extract the name of my cdrom drive programmatically.
I looked at WMI but the results are inconsistent from PC to PC.
I also looked at the Setup API from windows, but can't seem to 
find a way to extract the name of the Cd drive.  The Windows Device Manager has the name in it. "SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-612" 

Is there a way I can Programatically get this name?  What API calls should I be looking at etc...

Thanks for the help
Marc

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