diskpart

Is there a way in VBScripting to perform the same function as diskpart? Or
is there a way to scan a formatted document and pull the value from a line?
I can take diskpart and output its "Disk List" command to a text document
but it goes in as one line with characters to delineate the lines and
fields. If I use wordpad I can read it correctly but I need to then save it
to a text document to loose the formatting.

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Andrew C. Madsen
Network Specialist
Harley-Davidson Motor Company

DiGiTAL
Tue Sep 13 13:00:35 CDT 2005

Diskpart can read it's values from a text file witht eh appropriate
commands listed in order. Here is the way that you would call diskpart
from vbscript:
(The line may wrap, so remember it is all one line)
WshShell.Run "c:\tools\diskpart.exe /s c:\tools\MakeVol.txt", 1, True


And here is a sample of such a MakeVol.txt file:

REM This is an automated Disk Partition Script.
REM
REM -----------Start----------------

REM Show available disks
list disk

REM Select which disk to create simple volume on
REM disk 0 = physical C: drive, disk 1 = physical D: drive, etc.
select disk 1

REM Create the volume with a particular size
REM create partition primary size=34707
REM Create the volume with using all available space
create partition primary

REM Assign drive letter to new volume
assign letter=d

REM Show available disks
list disk

REM Select a particluar drive, partition, volume
select disk 0
select partition 2
select volume 2

REM change it's drive leter / Assign a drive letter to the selection
above
assign letter=Y
REM
REM ----------- End ----------------

Hope this helps,
DS

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Andrew
Tue Sep 13 13:40:22 CDT 2005

I am sorry I did not make myself clear. I want to run diskpart using a
script file. The script file will have the following:

list disks
exit

I want to pipe the result to a text file. I have been able to do this by
running the command "diskpart -s commandlist.txt > c:\disklist.txt"

I get a single string with control characters in the text file however if I
write it out to a .doc I can open it in word pad and the results are
readable.

The reason I want to do this is the drive I am trying to import will not
always have the same disk number because I want this script to run on
different machines. I will parse the output file and determine which disk I
want to target and then build another script file for diskpart from the
results.

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Andrew C. Madsen
Network Specialist
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
"DiGiTAL SKReAM" <DiGiTAL.SKReAM@gmail.foo.com> wrote in message
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> Diskpart can read it's values from a text file witht eh appropriate
> commands listed in order. Here is the way that you would call diskpart
> from vbscript:
> (The line may wrap, so remember it is all one line)
> WshShell.Run "c:\tools\diskpart.exe /s c:\tools\MakeVol.txt", 1, True
>
>
> And here is a sample of such a MakeVol.txt file:
>
> REM This is an automated Disk Partition Script.
> REM
> REM -----------Start----------------
>
> REM Show available disks
> list disk
>
> REM Select which disk to create simple volume on
> REM disk 0 = physical C: drive, disk 1 = physical D: drive, etc.
> select disk 1
>
> REM Create the volume with a particular size
> REM create partition primary size=34707
> REM Create the volume with using all available space
> create partition primary
>
> REM Assign drive letter to new volume
> assign letter=d
>
> REM Show available disks
> list disk
>
> REM Select a particluar drive, partition, volume
> select disk 0
> select partition 2
> select volume 2
>
> REM change it's drive leter / Assign a drive letter to the selection
> above
> assign letter=Y
> REM
> REM ----------- End ----------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> DS
>
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