Is it possible to locate the CD or DVD drive

I was wondering whether it was possible to s it possible to locate the CD or DVD drive with Labview.
My application kinda needs to copy files off the cd drive onto the computer but i don't know how to locate the cd drive
thanks

I'll add some more information about our problem. We would like to detect if a particular drive letter is a CD or DVD drive. The functionality should be similar to the following DriveInfo member in C#.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.driveinfo.drivetype.aspx
It can tell if a drive letter is a CDrom, Fixed, Network, Removable, Unknown, etc... drive.
I have searched the Advanced File VIs and Function for suitable functions and the GetVolumeData VI is very close (and we could probably detect drives with no free space). However, I wonder if there are any other VIs that can help.
Another example is the following:
http://binaryworld.net/Main/CodeDetail.aspx?CodeId=917
Thanks in advance,

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