I'm going to be doing a clean install (of Windows 7) on my desktop and I was wondering how I would make a 100GB partition on my hard drive with DiskPart using the following process. Would would be changed?
DiskPart <ENTER>list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean all <ENTER> (Will Take a While)
create partition primary align=1024 <ENTER>
format fs=ntfs <ENTER> (Will Take a While)
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
Rick, the way I understood him is that he wants a 100GB primary active partition to where to install. That way he avoids the 100MB system partition. If that is the case, I would suggest this command sequence:
DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean <ENTER> (Will be fast. The All parameter would write all zeros)
create partition primary align=1024 size=100000<ENTER> (size is 100GB)
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER> (Will be fast)
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
And since he did an alignment, he may be using a SSD. Then the 'All' parameter in Clean must be avoided. This parameter is anyhow useless in this context.
PS: I hope you don't mind me jumping in.
Thank you guys for all of your input.
I want to do a one partition install so that I do not have the 100MB partition and I am using and HDD, have not had the chance to get an SSD yet, my cash is very limited.
Let me verify I understand right, if I want to have a 1 partition install with that partition being 100GB I should use this command sequence:
DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean <ENTER> (Will be fast. The All parameter would write all zeros)
create partition primary align=1024 size=100000<ENTER> (size is 100GB)
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER> (Will be fast)
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
Thank you guys for your help!
Alright, thanks!
So the final command sequence would be:
DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean <ENTER>
create partition primary align=1024 size=100000<ENTER>
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER>
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
create partition primary align=1024 size=400000<ENTER>
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER>
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean <ENTER>
create partition primary align=1024 size=100000 <ENTER>
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER>
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
create partition primary <ENTER>
format fs=ntfs quick <ENTER>
assign <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
No Offset or Align on Second Partition.
Also in Windows 7, don't really need Align Command at all as that was only for Vista and Below.
Windows 7 and 8 automatically aligns sectors.
Have to define ALL disk geometry FIRST before Clean Installing OR System will make the little boot partition.
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