Client Management Suite

I'm looking for a way to create an Altiris deployment FDISK job that will format a windows XP hard disk with NTFS. I normally boot from the cd-rom using a windows xp disk, then reformat the hard disk manually using NTFS. It would be great if I can create a job to do this. I have about 3500 machines, so doing this manually would be impossible. In Altiris will I need to create a boot disk? Has any done this, or have steps to accomplish this. I'm open to all solutions.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

C@meron

I setup a task to run Diskpart and reference an answer file. Microsoft has this well documented.

I am using PXE boot with WinPE 2.1 and DS 6.9

I came up with this solution because we where getting HDD's with no partition table from the Manufacture and the image wouldn't lay down using rdeploy.

My commands are:

diskpart.exe /s Z:\Scripts\Diskpart.txt

(Z: is mapped to my express share and Diskpart should be part of WinPE)

 Commands in the text file

select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format FS=NTFS Quick
assign LETTER=C
exit

Spur,

Thank you for all of the information and commands. I'm trying that this week and will post back with what i accomplish.

Thanks again!!

C@meron

Spur,

I have the job setup exactly like you stated, but it doesn't seem to run for me. Do i need to copy Diskpart.exe to the C: drive of the client pc first?

My commands are:

diskpart.exe /s \\myserver\Scripts\Diskpart.txt

do you see anything wrong with using a UNC path in the command?

Thanks,

C@meron