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Subject: Re: Need help with writing drive property
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"GS" <gs@somewhere.net> wrote in message news:ir98hg$5dq$1@dont-email.me...
> I'm looking for a VB solution to put a value into a logical drive's 
> StatusInfo property. I've tried using FSO but can't seem to be able to 
> make it work due to not having any info for proper syntax to write. (Never 
> did this before; just read only)
>
> What I'm trying to do is place a temporary 'tag' on a specific drive so I 
> can query the value via WMI Win32_DiskDrive.
>
> Any help/direction would be most appreciated.


Any reason you can't just write this temporary "tag" to a temporary file? 
Seems to me like that'd be a lot easier.

-- 
Mike