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Function to get Drive free Space using C#:

Namespace:

using System.IO;

And the function:

        string GetDriveInfo(string strfile)
        {
            string strInfo;
            strInfo = "";//initialize string 
            try
            {


                FileInfo file = new FileInfo(strfile);
                DriveInfo driveinfo = new DriveInfo(file.FullName);

                strInfo += "Drive: " + driveinfo.Name;

                if (driveinfo.IsReady)
                {
                    strInfo += "\nFree space: " + driveinfo.AvailableFreeSpace.ToString();
                }

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
            return strInfo;

        }

Function usage:

MessageBox.Show(GetDriveInfo("C:/"));

That's it!