Bat file skip Disk 0 and format all other Hard disk in the pc

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balajisivapragasam-5111 asked Mar 18, '21 TeemoTang-MSFT commented Mar 23, '21

Bat file skip Disk 0 and format all other Hard disk in the pc

Hi Experts,

i am trying to format all the disk present in the pc excluding disk 0 in Winpe. so i am using the below given batch file script

@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
setlocal enableextensions

:: Set an initial value for HDDcount to keep track of how many HDDs we have found.

set HDDCount=0
For /f "Skip=3 usebackq tokens=1,2,3" %%A in ( ^
"PowerShell Get-PhysicalDisk ^| Select MediaType, DeviceID, FriendlyName") Do (
if %%A==HDD set /A HDDcount=HDDcount+1
if %%A==HDD call:HDD %%B %%C !HDDcount!)
:: All disks have been processed. Exit the batch file.

EXIT

:HDD

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: We arrive at the HDD routine if Get-PhysicalDisk indicates the disk is an HDD. :
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: If this is the first HDD that we have encountered, then we will set the disk label to
:: "Data". For each additional HDD, we will label them as "Data1", "Data2", "Data3", etc.

set /A ID=%3 - 1
if /I %ID% EQU 0 (
set DiskLabel=Data
) else (
set DiskLabel=Data%ID%
)

(
Echo select disk %2
Echo clean
Echo convert gpt
Echo create partition primary
Echo format quick fs=NTFS label="%DiskLabel%"
Echo assign
Echo exit
)|Diskpart

exit /b

but this batch file formats the Disk 0 also how we can stop the batch file from formatting the DIsk 0.

your help is much appreciated.

Thanks
Balaji S

windows-10-setup

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-18T22:33:32.193Z

MotoX80 answered Mar 18, '21

If you can run Powershell, then I would recommend that you do the entire script in Powershell. Add your diskpart commands to this. (I don't want to format my drives.)

  $AllHDD  = Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object MediaType -eq 'HDD'
  $count = 0 
  ForEach ($HDD in $AllHDD) {
        
     # Build diskpart commands based on which disk it is 
     if ($count -eq 0) {
         "This is the first HDD"
         $hdd.Size                                 # show how big it is
         $Label = 'Data'
         $cmds = @( "list disk",
                     "select disk $count"
                     "exit"
                  )
    
     } else {
         "Process subsequent HDD's here."
         $hdd.Size                                # show how big it is
         $Label = "Data$count"           # Example of how to concatenate a variable to a string 
         $cmds = @( "list disk",
                     "select disk $count"
                     "exit"
                  )
    
     }
    
     # Now send those commands to diskpart.
     ""
     "Here are the commands to be executed:"
     $cmds
     "" 
     $cmds | diskpart.exe 
    
     $count++                                      # increment count       
  }

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