Initializing and formatting a hard drive from dos or batch

[DVCake]

I would like to be able to autmoate the steps associated with initilzing, and formatting a drive. Formatting is easy but the device I am using is requiring to be initialized before formatting, or at least that what the admin tool on XP is telling me. IS there a DOs command for this?

~DC

 

[rvnguy]

Here are all the undocumented cmd's for fdisk, this can be done but only if your HD's are the same size or you are creating a partition of less size than maximum.

See the link and include the cmd's you need in a batch file

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html

rvnguy
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[DVCake]

No Fdisk for XP, I did find diskpart.exe, looks like it will do what I need.

THanks for the response

 

[rvnguy]

Sorry, You asked for a DOS cmd, not an XP GUI cmd

rvnguy
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