Using Windows Command Line To Prepare A Hard Disk

• Launch the Command Prompt as Administrator
• Enter the command line disk partitioning utility
  • Type: diskpart
• Show all available disks
  • Type: list disk
• Now you need to select the disk you want to prepare. WARNING: SELECTING THE WRONG DISK CANNOT CAUSE DATA LOSS!
  • Type: select disk (disk #)
• Remove all current parition information AND any data
  • Type: clean
• Create the new partition
  • Type: create partition primary
• Only do this next step if you want to the drive to be bootable
  • Type: active
• Format the drive with either FAT32 or NTFS
  • Type: format fs=ntfs quick or format fs=fat32 quick
• Assign it a drive letter
  • Type: assign