Format a disk

[victoryhighway2]

Hello,
I am looking for a way to automatically and silently format a disk from my VB code.

I first looked into SHFormatDrive, but all that opens the standard Windows format disk dialog and requires manual intervention.

I also looked into shelling out to FORMAT.COM, but that isn't working either.

Is there another way of going about this?

Regards,
Geoffrey

 

[gmmastros]

First, make sure you have all the format parameters you are looking for...

click Start -> Run
Type: %Windir%\Help\ntcmds.chm
Click OK

do a search on Format

then, you can run this using the shell command

Shell "cmd /c Format <Include your command line arguments>"


-George

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[johnwm]

Shell to cmd and use the /c argument. You will need to get the format responses from a text file.
Open a text file (say C:\test.txt) which contains:

Y
N

(that's Y and a {CR} followed by N and a {CR})
Then from VB:

Shell("cmd /c format a: /q < c:\test.txt")

The 'cmd /c' says DO IT
The /q is for quick format (omit if you need a full format)
The < C:\test.txt supplies the FORMAT answers

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