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diskpart command diskpart command In computing, diskpart is a command-line disk partitioning utility included in Windows XP and later Microsoft operating systems, replacing its predecessor, fdisk. The command is also available in ReactOS.
diskpart command]] diskpart command]] In computing, diskpart is a command-line disk partitioning utility included in Windows XP and later Microsoft operating systems, replacing its predecessor, fdisk. The command is also available in ReactOS. create partition logical size=2048 assign letter=F Specifically, the above will create a 2 GB logical partition, provided that adequate space is available, and assign it the drive letter 'F:'. The installed disks and their associated volumes and/or partitions can be viewed using these commands: list disk list volume list partition The sel command will select them. The command clean will perform a "quick" disk wipe, and clean all zeroes out the entire partition/disk. The ReactOS version was developed by Lee Schroeder and is licensed under the GPLv2. ==Recovery Console== On the Recovery Console, which is included in all Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, 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. ==See also== Logical Disk Manager Disk Utility parted, cfdisk List of disk partitioning software Windows Imaging Format Loop devices PartitionMagic ==References== ==Further reading== ==External links==
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