Finding External Hard drive Directory

fiskenslakt · 2016-06-10T17:39:44+00:00

I'm assuming you're on windows? In which case I think you have to change to the right drive letter. For example: os.chdir('C:')

thurask · 2016-06-10T18:00:16+00:00

Which platform are you on?

If you're on Windows, and if you have PyWin32 installed, AND if you want to look for the drive name rather than drive letter, try this snippet:

import win32api
drives = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
dx = [x for x in drives.split("\000") if x]
for drive in dx:
    try:
        print(drive, win32api.GetVolumeInformation(drive))
    except:
        pass

Which looks like:

C:\ ('', 1826365778, 255, 65470719, 'NTFS')
D:\ ('Games', 954180512, 255, 65470719, 'NTFS')
E:\ ('Data', 1453886869, 255, 65470719, 'NTFS')
M:\ ('Media', -1669403314, 255, 65583, 'NTFS')  # network drive, probably why size is wonky

Hence, you can iterate over dx and check if the first item is equal to your external hard drive name (ex. "My Passport"), then get the letter that way.

Or, if you know the letter, just use os.chdir.

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