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Creating A Partition Using Diskpart: Hard Drive Partitions

Diskpart can be used to create, delete, and resize partitions. It allows administrators to scan for new disks, create primary or extended partitions, assign drive letters, and extend existing partitions by restriping data across disks in a RAID array. Diskpart provides superior performance to dynamic disk extensions by redistributing data rather than just adding space to the end of a partition.

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Creating A Partition Using Diskpart: Hard Drive Partitions

Diskpart can be used to create, delete, and resize partitions. It allows administrators to scan for new disks, create primary or extended partitions, assign drive letters, and extend existing partitions by restriping data across disks in a RAID array. Diskpart provides superior performance to dynamic disk extensions by redistributing data rather than just adding space to the end of a partition.

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Administrators can use Diskpart to scan for newly added disks, but it can

also create, delete and resize hard drive partitions, and assign or
reassign drive letters.

Note: Any text in parentheses are comments only; they should not be
typed along with any commands given.

Creating a partition using Diskpart


Using Diskpart to partition your disk is very beneficial for increasing the I/O
performance of hard disks newly added to a RAID array. The documentation for
many server applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, actually goes so
far as to recommend that you should use Diskpart to create your primary or
extended partitions. A primary partition can be used as the system partition; an
extended partition can only be used for additional logical drive assignments.

To create a partition:

1. At a command prompt, type: Diskpart.exe

2. At the DISKPART prompt, type: LIST DISK (Lists disks found. Make note of
the drive number you wish to manipulate.)

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Disk 1 (This selects the disk; make
sure to type in the disk number from step two.)

4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY


SIZE=10000
(Change the word PRIMARY to EXTENDED to create an extended partition.
If you do not set a size -- in megabytes -- such as the above example for 10
GB, then all available space on the disk will be used for the partition.
Seriously consider adding the following option to the end of the above
command if you are using RAID -- especially RAID 5 -- to improve disk I/O
performance: ALIGN=64.)

5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: ASSIGN LETTER=D (Choose a drive letter


not already being used.)
6. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Exit

7. Use the Command Prompt format command, Disk Administrator or any disk
format utility to format the drive -- typically using NTFS, of course.
Extending a partition using Diskpart
When it comes to adding space to a partition or volume, this method is superior
to configuring dynamic disks. Dynamic disk extensions only concatenate the
newly added space, meaning they merely add the disk space to the end of the
original partition without restriping the data.

Concatenation isolates performance within each partition and does not offer fault
tolerance when the partition is configured in a RAID array. Diskpart allows you
to restripe your existing data. This is truly beneficial when the partition is set up
in a RAID array, because the existing partition data is spread out across all the
drives in the array, rather than just adding new space to the end, like Disk
Administrator.

Extend a volume using Diskpart.

Microsoft's official position is you cannot use Diskpart to extend your system or
boot partition. However, this tip on increasing the capacity of your system
volume suggests otherwise.
Note: If you try it or any other method, make sure you have a full backup.

To extend a partition:

1. Verify that contiguous free space is available on the same drive and that free
space is next to the partition you intend on extending, with no partitions in
between.

2. At a command prompt, type: Diskpart.exe

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Disk 1 (Selects the disk.)

4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Volume 1 (Selects the volume.)

5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Extend Size=10000 (If you do not set a size,
such as the above example for 10 GB, then all available space on the disk will
be used.)

6. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Exit

Note: It is not necessary, but I normally reboot the server to make sure all is well
from a startup standpoint.

Deleting a partition using Diskpart


Note: You cannot delete an active system or boot partition, or a partition with an
active page file.

1. At a command prompt, type: Diskpart.exe

2. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Disk 1

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Partition 1

4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: DELETE partition

5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Exit


Wiping a disk using Diskpart
This operation deletes all data on the disk.
1. At a command prompt, type: Diskpart.exe

2. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Select Disk 1

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: CLEAN ALL (The CLEAN ALL command
removes all partition and volume information from the hard drive being
focused on.)

4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: Exit

Final note: Here are four important things to keep in mind regarding Diskpart.

 Do not use DISKPART until you have fully backed up the hard disk you are
manipulating.

 Exercise extreme caution when using DISKPART on dynamic disks.

 Check with your disk vendor before using Diskpart.

 Install the Windows Resource Kit to get the Diskpart utility.

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