Getting file system drives

Hi,
I would like to get hold of all the drives on the system for navigation like a:\, c:\...etc. Basically a JFileChooser but without the GUI.
I have looked up File, FileChooser and various sytem properties but none of these seem to apply. I also took a peek at JTree (kind of hoping a 'ready-made' class for a navigation tree already existed) but nope. I suspect this is due to the different management by OS's but isn't there some sort of 'getMountedPartitions()' method ?
Shall I have to write native code ?
Any suggestions/ideas are more than welcome,
BadLands

java.io.File
listRoots
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A particular Java platform may support zero or more hierarchically-organized file systems. Each file system has a root directory from which all other files in that file system can be reached. Windows platforms, for example, have a root directory for each active drive; UNIX platforms have a single root directory, namely "/". The set of available filesystem roots is affected by various system-level operations such the insertion or ejection of removable media and the disconnecting or unmounting of physical or virtual disk drives.

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