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, diskpart is a

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disk partitioning Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk, ...

utility included in

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and later

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s, replacing its predecessor,

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. The command is also available in

ReactOS ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for amd64/i686 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows. ReactOS has been not ...

Overview

The diskpart is a utility used for partitioning internal hard drives but can also format

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such as flash drives. Although theoretically it is possible to create in Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP on removable drives such as flash drives or memory cards for example during system installation. However, the ability to format, for example, the Recovery Console, is completely blocked to format such a disk. A message will appear: 'Cannot format removable disk'. Microsoft noticed this error. And it completely blocked the ability to view and create partitions from Windows Vista to Windows 10. The command supports the use of scripts to automate its usage. For example, the following text file could be supplied to diskpart to create a new partition: create partition logical size=2048 assign letter=F This will create a 2 GB logical partition at the beginning of the free space on the disk and assign it the

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F:, provided that space requirements are met. The installed disks and their associated volumes and/or partitions can be viewed by these commands: list disk list volume list partition To select it, the sel command is used. The clean command is used to either perform a "quick" disk wiping while adding the all argument zeroes the entire partition/disk. The ReactOS version was developed by Lee Schroeder and is licensed under the

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Recovery Console

On the Recovery Console, which is included in all Windows 2000,

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and

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, there is a diskpart command which is significantly different from the one included in the actual operating system. It only provides functionality for adding and deleting partitions, but not for setting an active partition.

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* * Windows administration Hard disk software Disk partitioning software {{storage-software-stub