How to Format Hard Drive Partition with Diskpart Command Line?

1/18/2017 How to Format Hard Drive Partition with Diskpart Command Line?

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Professional Edition Format disk is necessary before using

Format disk is necessary before using. No matter what operating system, it has a certain way to manage disks, and For Server Users only the formatted disk structure can be recognized. After formatting the disk, you can use it to store the data. So, Lite Edition Free when people create a new partition, they always do a format for it. Server Edition How to format drive with Diskpart?

For Enterprise Users To format drive, you can use the Disk Management tool, or rightclick on a drive in Windows Explorer and select the

Unlimited Edition “Format...”. If you would rather use a command line to format the drive, Diskpart would be the first choice, and it

does have many advantages, for example, if you would like to reformat a drive which had an operating system on Technician Edition the drive, you can find there are system partitions on the drive which cannot be formatted by Disk Management

and cannot be seen in Windows Explorer. But, how to format drive with Diskpart? Editions Comparison Diskpart is an amazing tool which can manage disks by typing the relative syntax. You can use the CMD to create

partition, delete partition, initialize partition, etc, and you can format a local drive or an external hard drive for the

use of file storage in your Windows OS environment. Quick Links To use the command line to format a drive, you need to open the command prompt first. Here you can click Start,

Online Store type “cmd”, right click it and select “Run as Administrator”, or you can press “WIN+R” to open the Run window,

then, type “cmd” and press Enter to open the prompt. Download Center

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NTFS to FAT32 Converter Type diskpart to open the diskpart command prompt.

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Type list volume, press Enter, all the volume will be list.

Type select volume n, press Enter, the volume you want to format will be selected.

Then,type "format fs=ntfs quick label=test" and press Enter. It will format the partition quick. Like the screen shot

shows.

Tips: you can change the “test” into any labels you like in “label=test”.

Finally, you can type “exit” and press Enter to close the command prompt. Till now, you can see the new formatted

drive in My Computer and take use of it.

Diskpart alternative AOMEI Partition Assistant

Diskpart is widely used in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10, but it doesn’t support Windows XP. If you are using XP, how

do you manage disks with command line? Fortunately, there is a software AOMEI Partition Assistant, which allows

you to manage disk with CMD, and it supports almost all the Windows OS. For Windows PC users, it has the free

edition Standard and it supports Windows 10/8/8.1/7/Vista/XP. Besides command line, AOMEI Partition Assistant

still provides you graphical user interface (GUI) to manage your disks, for example, migrate OS to SSD or HDD. Back

to the point, how to format disk with AOMEI Commandline?

Before you do, you need to download the free edition AOMEI Partition Assistant. Then, you can follow the guide

below.

First, click Start, and type “cmd”, right click the program and select “Run as Administrator”, or press “WIN+R”, type

“cmd” and press Enter to open the command line prompt. Then, you can use the parameters to format a drive by

following the steps in the screen shot. To use AOMEI Commandline, you need to: 1). Type “cd C:\Program

Files\AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.8”, and press Enter. 2). Type “partassist.exe /list” and press

Enter. 3). Type partassist.exe /list:1 to list all the volume on disk 1. 4). Type “partassist.exe /hd:1 /fmt:H /fs:fat32

/label:xbox” to format the NTFS to FAT 32.

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Wait till the progress successful.

Notes:

"/hd" followed by disk number, which starts with 0.

"/fmt" followed by partition number or drive letter, and the partition number starts with 0. If the specified value is drive letter, disk number can be ignored.

"/fs" means file system, whose value can be fat16, fat32 or ntfs.

For home and office usage, AOMEI Partition Assistant is a really good Diskpart alternative, for it has simpler syntax

to manage the disks, partitions, and its GUI mode is very acclaimed by users. Plus, it can replace Diskpart to do

many things like replacing Diskpart delete partition, etc. But if you try to find a reliable partition software to

optimize the performance of your servers for small and medium sized business, AOMEI Partition Assistant Server is

your best choice. It works on Windows Server 2003, 2008 (R2), 2012 (R2), 2016 and SBS 2003, 2008, 2011 as

well as Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1. Experience the excellent server partition manager here.

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