I have new hard drive, I use diskmgmt to to an "Initialize" and then I do a
partition to use the drive. I now have to do this a lot and want to script
it to do this.

I am using diskpart to do what diskmgmt GUI does but they don't map well.

I need to be able to do what diskmgmt GUI does when it does an "Initialize
disk". How do I do this ? Some googlin pointed to doing a rescan. Rescan
seems to run and look for drives but it does not do what the GUI does which
is to take the disk from unknown to being a "basic" drive so I can then
partition it and use it.

For scripts,go to:http://www.microsoft.com/technet
At TechNet,locate the script center,try the library as a script might
already be
made for that.Also,try youre hd mfg web page,locate the MS-DOS hd utility,
download to a formatted MS-DOS floppy,boot pc to floppy,most of these
utilities
let you format & partition(s) the hd as you like.....

"kevinma" wrote:

> I have new hard drive, I use diskmgmt to to an "Initialize" and then I do a
> partition to use the drive. I now have to do this a lot and want to script
> it to do this.
>
> I am using diskpart to do what diskmgmt GUI does but they don't map well.
>
> I need to be able to do what diskmgmt GUI does when it does an "Initialize
> disk". How do I do this ? Some googlin pointed to doing a rescan. Rescan
> seems to run and look for drives but it does not do what the GUI does which
> is to take the disk from unknown to being a "basic" drive so I can then
> partition it and use it.
>
>

I think u do not have any option for initializing disk in diskpart.

U can try this

1.sel disk 1
2.clean
now disk 1 shows " Not initialized"
3.create par ext
4.del par

Now ur disk will show as "online"



"Andrew E." wrote:

> For scripts,go to:http://www.microsoft.com/technet
> At TechNet,locate the script center,try the library as a script might
> already be
> made for that.Also,try youre hd mfg web page,locate the MS-DOS hd utility,
> download to a formatted MS-DOS floppy,boot pc to floppy,most of these
> utilities
> let you format & partition(s) the hd as you like.....
>
> "kevinma" wrote:
>
> > I have new hard drive, I use diskmgmt to to an "Initialize" and then I do a
> > partition to use the drive. I now have to do this a lot and want to script
> > it to do this.
> >
> > I am using diskpart to do what diskmgmt GUI does but they don't map well.
> >
> > I need to be able to do what diskmgmt GUI does when it does an "Initialize
> > disk". How do I do this ? Some googlin pointed to doing a rescan. Rescan
> > seems to run and look for drives but it does not do what the GUI does which
> > is to take the disk from unknown to being a "basic" drive so I can then
> > partition it and use it.
> >
> >

[mgriffico]

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