Catching 'external drive inserted' event in a windows service

Question

I'm trying to write a super-simple podcast-to-device downloading service to use for running. I imagine that it'll like this:

Whenever a particular device is plugged in (via USB), it:

• Deletes everything from the device
• Checks for all the latest entries in a number of RSS Podcast feeds
• Downloads those to the device
• Notifies the user about when its done.

I have some passing experience with windows services, but am not sure how to (using .NET/C#) catch the 'media device/usb hard drive has been plugged in' event. Any advice?

Answer 1

The simplest solution would be to periodically enumerate the devices!

CodeProject has a comprehensive C# article for this here : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/DriveDetector.aspx