disk initialization and volume creation

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So I've been beating my head against MSDN and WMI documentation and am not having any luck whatsoever!! Does anybody know if there is a method to intialize a raw disk, and create a volume on it all from within a c# program?

I've worked with Win32_disk and friends, but really it seems that the only thing WMI is good for is retrieving info, you can't really "do" anything with it.

Anyway, I'm almost ready to resort to making calls to diskpart from within my program, but with the diskpart shell I'm sure that will be interesting as well.

Posted 26-Aug-10 4:38am

jgriffith

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Toli Cuturicu 26-Aug-10 10:50am

You are right. WMI only gets stuff. You can't set anything.

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Nyarost · Answer 1 · 2010-08-26T05:39:00

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I am not sure that C# security sandbox allows such things. I think the best way is to call external utility which should be shipped with your program.

Posted 26-Aug-10 5:39am

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