Powershell & Disk Setup

So recently I had to setup some drives but wanted to bypass the traditonal compmgmt route (or diskmgmt).  Powershell proved to be much faster than the old way, it only takes a few seconds to setup an SSD (longer if you want to format).


#which drives are partition style raw?

Get-Disk

# so in the above example I noted disk number 4 is RAW, I wanted it to be the N drive
# allocate all space, format as GPT and label it "N-DRIVE"

Get-Disk | Where-object Number -eq 4 | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT -PassThru | New-Partition -DriveLetter N -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "N-DRIVE" -Confirm:$false

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References:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-powershell-to-initialize-raw-disks-and-to-partition-and-format-volumes/

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