Using Windows Command Line To Prepare A Hard Disk
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- 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