How to detect a USB drive has been plugged in?

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It is easy to check for removable devices. However, there’s no guarantee that it is a USB device:

var drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives()
    .Where(drive => drive.IsReady && drive.DriveType == DriveType.Removable);

This will return a list of all removable devices that are currently accessible. More information:

  • The DriveInfo class (msdn documentation)
  • The DriveType enumeration (msdn documentation)

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