Hi guy's I've a problem that I'm hoping you can help me with....basically I'm creating a unattended install, but first I want to, befor the install starts is format the first partition on my hard drive. My hard drive is 80 gig...c:\ 40 gig and d:\40 gig, I would like to somehow in either bart PE and WinPE boot into NTFS and automatically format c:\ partition then re-boot and start my unattended install..Any help guy's Pleeeeeze

Modify your startnet.cmd to consist of:

DISKPART /S commands.txt

FORMAT /Q /Y /FS:NTFS

WINNT32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /dudisable /makelocalsource /unattend:unattend.txt

EXIT

Your commands.txt file should consist of:

SEL DIS 0

CLEAN

CRE PAR PRI SIZE=40000

CRE PAR PRI

SEL PAR 1

ASSIGN LETTER=C

ACTIVE

SEL PAR 2

ASSIGN LETTER=E

BTW, you don't need to reboot. Just partition, format, and go.

WoW..cheer's M8, Will that leave partition d: intact ?

I'll give it a go that way. I tried a simular way but it formatted the whole of C:, then partitioned it again with C: and D: but I lost all my data on D:....

As I only want to format c: partition....

cheer's M8

Then all you need to do is the format step, omit all the diskpart stuff.

And it's

FORMAT C: /Q /Y /FS:NTFS

You have to feed it a drive letter. :-)

Cheer's M8....I'll give it a bash...

Is it possible to format the hard disk similar way but make 2 patitions equal what ever the size is 50% and 50%