Formatting a drive

[paraffin]

Hello Guys

I am currently building an unattended x64 2003 R2 disk to use when building HP BL460c servers, I have successfully done this now with integrated Drivers, Updates but now I want to start removing the mundane jobs we do after the server is built.

One of these is to create a 2nd partition (E:\) on the Raid 1 Logical Drive to do this I am using Diskpart to create, label and assign drive letter via a script

Example

select disk 1

create partition primary size=1000

assign letter=E

This works fine and silently but the problem comes when I want to format the drive, I run this cmd: "format E: /q /FS:NTFS /V:Applications" but it always asks if I am sure I want to format the drive.

Does anybody know how to make the format occur silently without answering that question?

Cheers

David

[jaclaz]

Have a look at this batch code:

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:pPvTS...howtopic%3D3229

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:SJZ9G...ost%26p%3D22320

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:ptcEy...D3229%26st%3D20

(unfortunately boot-land is offline, should be back soon)

jaclaz

[paraffin]

The code to pass the Yes to the question is

ECHO Y | FORMAT E: /FS:NTFS /Q /V:Applications

Thanks for the help

[jaclaz]

Thanks for the help

You are welcome.

You might also be interested in this (integrating diskpart script inside batch):

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...26069&st=19

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=126727

jaclaz