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I am just starting to use powershell and what better way to learn than with
a real problem to solve.

We have just taken delivery of a large number of new workstations.

XP SP 2 has been installed on them, but only 30GB of 700GB has been
allocated to the C: drive

I want to create an E: drive in the unpartioned space on the drive

Where can I found out how to do this?

What is the best book to look in to learn this great tool

Thanks Heaps

Bob

You can script DISKPART.exe. It's installed by default on XP machines. I
did some scripting on it before.
I'll try to find it and post it here.

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You can take a look here:

Using Diskpart to create, extend or delete a disk partition
http://searchwincomputing.techtarget...241594,00.html

One thing this article doesn't mention is that you can write all diskpart
command in a text file (one command per line) and
use it as an input file to diskpart.exe:


#### diskpart.txt #####
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
ASSIGN LETTER=E
EXIT


diskpart.exe < diskpart.txt

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Shay Levi
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Thank-you
"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8766a944de1e8c9f9830bbbd41a@xxxxxx

You might also want to format the drive (assuming NTFS), test before executing
(use your own disk/partition numbers):

### SAMPLE ###

SELECT DISK 0
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
ASSIGN LETTER=E
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="New Volume" QUICK
EXIT

Still trying to find my old diskpart scripts :-)

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Shay Levi
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http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

In terms of the best book. I would recommend Bruce Payette's PowerShell in
Action. As he was co-designer of the language he knows an awful lot about it
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"Shay Levi" wrote:

"RichS" <RichS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4BB90A27-85A3-4E78-8A96-F92D578AA1C6@xxxxxx I recommend this one also. It is my favorite PowerShell book at the moment
(haven't seen Lee Holmes' book yet).

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Keith