chdrive

Switches to another drive on a Windows operating system.

int  chdrive( int drive); 

chdrive changes the current working drive to be drive, an integer representing the new drive. (1 = A, 2 = B, etc.)

Return Values

The chdrive function returns zero on success and (-1) for failure.

Example

The following example uses chdrive to move to all available drives on the file system. It saves the original drive in curdrive, so it can be restored later.

 int ch, drive, curdrive;
    static char path[1024];
    // Save current drive letter so it can be restored later 
    curdrive = getdrive();
    // If we can switch to the drive, it exists
    lr_output_message ("Available drives are:");
    for (drive = 1; drive <= 26; drive++)
    if (!chdrive(drive))
        lr_output_message ("%c: ", drive + 'A' - 1);
        chdrive(curdrive); // Restore original drive