For those who know about WinPE (for those who don’t, I’ll publish an article soon) and want to know how to automate everything. Here’s a quick script that can be used to quickly get the partition structure right.

You will need to place the following in a text file. This creates 3 partitions with ~100GB, ~30GB and remainder and formats them using ntfs/quick.

The script will also change the drive letter assigned to the CD/DVD-ROM from the default D:.

select volume 0
assign letter n
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size=100000
select partition 1
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=c
active
create partition primary size=30000
select partition 2
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=d
create partition primary
select partition 3
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=e
exit

Chuck this in a txt file somewhere (network/USB/CDROM) and call dispart ->

diskpart /s filename.txt

Have fun!!!

- Shehan