NTFS partition creation through command line

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Dana G.

Does anybody know of a small utulity that I can use to
create an NTFS primary partition and possibly format it
through the command line? I need a variable sized
partition. I am not concerned about destroying the
currently existing partition table.

If there is no DOS utility to do this, is there any way I
could start with a Fat32 partition, then use some
unattended install scripting feature to convert the
partition during install through an answer file? Thanks in
advance.
 
you can convert from FAT32 to NTFS with the

FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

directive in your unattended install file.

gdisk (part of Ghost) is one util that will create a FAT-32 from a prompt
prior to OS install. Compaq used to (probably still has) a util that would
create a 4GB FAT16 partition. It was part of the Server Scripting Toolkit.
I've also seen a couple of freeware fdisk variants that to this... just look
on google.
 
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