>Anyone using the Scripting.FileSystemObject in SCRRUN.DLL to get information on drives, folders, volume names etc?
>
>oFS = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>cDrive = ..drive letter ...
>IF oFS.DriveExists(cDrive)
> oDrv = oFS.Drives.Item(cDrive)
> ? oDrv.SerialNumber
> ? oDrv.FreeSpace
> ? oDrv.TotalSpace
> ... etc ...
>ENDIF
>
>It works very well (as long as you have SCRRUN.DLL installed), but I cannot get volume serial numbers from some partitions. On a W2K machine, its FAT partition gives a good serial number, but its 2 NTFS partitions each return "0000-0000".
>
>The KnowledgeBase article Q139547 shows how to use the GetVolumeInformation API call with VFP - but this does no better.
>
>VOL at the command prompt returns a good serial for each partition.
>
>Any clues about how to get around this? Any past threads deal with it?

John,

MS KB article Q234741 may be of help. Under Win9x, GetVolumeInformation() for remote drives doesn't work. The information in the KB article may be of help in this situation as well.