Customised diskpart - search and partition SSD

Hello everyone,

I am doing new images for our company, and using WinPe to automate things.

Usually and most of the PC that we deploy have only one disk, and than the default microsoft script does good job for me:

Code:

rem == CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt ==
rem == These commands are used with DiskPart to
rem    create four partitions
rem    for a UEFI/GPT-based PC.
rem    Adjust the partition sizes to fill the drive
rem    as necessary. ==
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
rem == 1. System partition =========================
create partition efi size=100
rem    ** NOTE: For Advanced Format 4Kn drives,
rem               change this value to size = 260 ** 
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
rem == 2. Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition =======
create partition msr size=16
rem == 3. Windows partition ========================
rem ==    a. Create the Windows partition ==========
create partition primary 
rem ==    b. Create space for the recovery tools ===
rem       ** Update this size to match the size of
rem          the recovery tools (winre.wim)
rem          plus some free space.
shrink minimum=500
rem ==    c. Prepare the Windows partition ========= 
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
rem === 4. Recovery partition ======================
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"
assign letter="R"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list volume
exit

But the issue is when PC has one HDD and one SSD, and than usually SSD is disk1 not disk0. So I was wondering if anyone can help me to modify this script to automatically search for SSD and to partition SSD instead of HDD.

Thanks in advance

Windwos Pro 2004

Will the script be run on Windows PE or installed Windows 10?
PowerShell can search for an SSD, but I wonder whether your Windows PE has PowerShell.
My Windows PE has no PowerShell.

PowerShell Get-PhysicalDisk ^| Select MediaType, DeviceID, FriendlyName

The above command can find SSDs and HDDs.
I have used it in the following script:

Batch files for use in BSOD debugging

Are you sure that the captions of all SSDs must include the term "SSD"?

ssivic said:

All I need now is to connect the two scripts to work together...

The two scripts in the following ZIP file will work together.

Testing.zip

Download it and extract the files. The INP file has the following line:

select disk X

Run the CMD file and see whether the above X has been replaced with the disk number of your SSD.

If it works, the INP and CMD files can then be combined into a single file.

Thank you, will check it out as soon as I get back in office and let you know. in the meantime I was trying to do something like this, but not if it will work. A all in one PS script to select SSD that is over 100GB and than partition it...

$MainDisk = 0
ForEach ($disk in (Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object DeviceID, MediaType, Size)){
If ($disk.MediaType -eq 'SSD' -and $disk.Size -gt 100GB){
$MainDisk = $disk.DeviceID
$prepdisk=@(
'select vol $MainDisk',
'clean'
'convert gpt'
'create partition efi size=100'
'format quick fs=fat32 label="System"'
'assign letter="S"'
'create partition msr size=16'
'create partition primary'
'shrink minimum=500'
'format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"'
'assign letter="W"'
'create partition primary'
'format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"'
'assign letter="R"'
'set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"'
'gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001'
'list volume'
)
$prepdisk | diskpart
break
}
}

ssivic said:

A all in one PS script to select SSD that is over 100GB and than partition it...

The following CMD script will select an SSD but will not check the disk capacity.

Code:

For /f "Skip=3 usebackq tokens=1,2" %%A in ( ^
`"PowerShell Get-PhysicalDisk ^| Select MediaType, DeviceID"`) Do (
If %%A==SSD Call:Job %%B)
Exit
:Job
(
Echo select disk %1
Echo clean
Echo convert gpt
Echo create partition efi size=100
Echo format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
Echo assign letter="S"
Echo create partition msr size=16
Echo create partition primary
Echo shrink minimum=500
Echo format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
Echo assign letter="W"
Echo create partition primary
Echo format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"
Echo assign letter="R"
Echo set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
Echo gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
Echo list volume
Echo exit
)|DisKPart

It is not difficult to find an SSD but difficult to compare the capacity because CMD does not support such a large number as 107400000000 (= 100 GB).