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Diskpart Help
I would like to write a batch file that uses diskpart to partition 6 partitions, assigns drive letters ,to 60 ,20,20,250,80 , 80,DVD and USB Flash and formats the partitions to NTFS . How is this done? John
Diskpart Help
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Not possible from a batch file. However, you can call DISKPART /S and give it a text file of Diskpart commands as a script to achieve what you want. See Microsoft's documentation here.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...s-and-examples
Although the documentation says it refers to Windows Server, I've tested that it also works in Windows 10 Home.
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And leave the DVD drive out of the list, not much you can do with it as any formatting is done on the disc. NTFS on a USB Thumb drive will work if not using it on a Macintosh computer, usually has read-only support without a third-party software, not an issue on Windows or Linux machines.
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...and be very careful how you test your script, Diskpart is very powerful, you could inadvertently wipe the wrong drive!
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Download the attachment.
Open admin command prompt then type the batch file name to run (z.bat)
WARNING: Be careful. select the correct disk.
NOTE: Since you create more than 4 partitions, I assume that the disk will be a GPT disk.Last edited by topgundcp; 30 Nov 2019 at 11:58.
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Thank you for your help
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Can I use mkdir after I use diskpart in the text file?
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No, not yet. The diskpart script created by that batch file just creates and formats the partitions. It needs some more diskpart commands added before the 'echo >> %temp%\diskpart.txt exit' line. For each partition you'll need a SELECT PARTITION command followed by an ASSIGN LETTER= command to give it a drive letter.
Only once each partition has a drive letter will you be able to use MKDIR commands (placed after the line 'diskpart /s %temp%\diskpart.txt') to create folders on those drive letters.
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