diff --git a/copyparty/httpcli.py b/copyparty/httpcli.py
index 0e2dbadb..1c406407 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpcli.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpcli.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import json
 import base64
 import string
 import socket
-import ctypes
 from datetime import datetime
 from operator import itemgetter
 import calendar
@@ -20,6 +19,11 @@ try:
 except:
     pass
 
+try:
+    import ctypes
+except:
+    pass
+
 from .__init__ import E, PY2, WINDOWS, ANYWIN, unicode
 from .util import *  # noqa  # pylint: disable=unused-wildcard-import
 from .bos import bos
@@ -1917,11 +1921,14 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             # some fuses misbehave
             if not self.args.nid:
                 if WINDOWS:
-                    bfree = ctypes.c_ulonglong(0)
-                    ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(
-                        ctypes.c_wchar_p(abspath), None, None, ctypes.pointer(bfree)
-                    )
-                    srv_info.append(humansize(bfree.value) + " free")
+                    try:
+                        bfree = ctypes.c_ulonglong(0)
+                        ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(
+                            ctypes.c_wchar_p(abspath), None, None, ctypes.pointer(bfree)
+                        )
+                        srv_info.append(humansize(bfree.value) + " free")
+                    except:
+                        pass
                 else:
                     sv = os.statvfs(fsenc(abspath))
                     free = humansize(sv.f_frsize * sv.f_bfree, True)