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)
Seems to be a known issue affecting Android USB file access over MTP. The MTP cache gets out of date until a reboot of the phone. A workaround is: Clear the “Media Storage” app’s data Use the SDrescan or the SD Scanner (also works on Android 4.4/5, available on F-Droid) app to force an update … Read more
This Class performs a series of queries on the WMI Win32_DiskDrive class and its associators: Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition and CIM_LogicalDiskBasedOnPartition, to retrieve informations on the active USB Drives on a System (local or remote). It might seem redundant (probably because it is), since you just asked for the USB Drives Serial Number. But, you never know what … Read more