Batch File Question

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Who knows how to alter this to use Diskpart to remove NTFS drives. At the moment this only does FAT.
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST "A:\FORMAT.TXT" GOTO FORMAT
IF NOT EXIST "A:\FORMAT.TXT" GOTO FDISK

:FDISK
ECHO This system will reboot when complete.
ECHO.
ECHO Deleting all current partitions ...
FDISK /CLEAR > NUL
ECHO Creating new partitions ...
FDISK /AUTO > NUL
ECHO. > A:\FORMAT.TXT
GOTO REBOOT

:REBOOT
FDISK /REBOOT

:FORMAT
ECHO Formatting drive ...
FORMAT drive /AUTOTEST /V:label /S
DEL A:\FORMAT.TXT
GOTO END
:END
CLS
ECHO FINISHED FDISK AND FORMAT

Diskpart can make use of an answer file.

Here is one that I use in my Windows Setup process

My answer file

 select disk 0
 clean
 create partition primary 
 assign letter=C
 active
 exit
 

The command you would use
Diskpart /s c:\folder\nameoffile.txt

Now, what does the above command do.

select disk 0 - Select the first disk on the PC
clean - wipes the drive clean, removing all partitions (i.e. if you had 2 partitions when you started, they would be gone)
create partition primary - create the partition
assign letter=C - assign the above partition the letter C
active - make the above partition active
exit - exit diskpart

Once this was done, all you would have to do is format the drive with whatever FS you want.

I tried this. It gave me an error that it could not be run in DOS.
Can it step through all partitions and delete them
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST "A:\FORMAT.TXT" GOTO FORMAT
IF NOT EXIST "A:\FORMAT.TXT" GOTO FDISK


:FDISK
Diskpart /s A:\DiskpartFormat.txt
GOTO REBOOT

:REBOOT
FDISK /REBOOT

:FORMAT
ECHO Formatting drive ...
FORMAT C: /AUTOTEST /S
DEL A:\FORMAT.TXT
GOTO END
:END
CLS
ECHO FINISHED FDISK AND FORMAT

NOTE: My DiskpartFormat.txt is what you posted.

FDisk <> Diskpart.

Diskpart is, essentially, a 32bit version of FDisk.  I had thought you were looking at switching from FDisk to DiskPart.  As far as I know, you can not run diskpart in DOS.

There used to be a third party app called diskpart that I used on NT4 that was dos based.
I think there might be one on Hirens Boot CD. I will have a look and see what I can find.
I tried free Fdisk but, still need to see if its got command line switches.
Thanks for the help

Ahh, wasn't aware of the 3rd party app.  The Diskpart I use came from MS, with 2000/XP

My mistake its Delpart