Diskpart to Manage Hard Drive Partitions

Create Partition using Diskpart:

• In the command prompt window type diskpart.exe
• In Diskpart command prompt, type list disk (Make a note of the drive number you want to employ.)
• Next, type select disk 1 (The disk will be selected; ensure you type the disk number you want to employ from previous step)
• Now type create partition primary size=10000

(To create extended partition, change the word PRIMARY to EXTENDED.)

• Type assign letter = e (Select a drive letter not being used already.)
• Type exit
• Reboot the system and format newly created partition using format command

Format Partition using Diskpart:

• Formatting the newly created partition is easy. The command to be used is format fs=ntfs quick
• You need to use this command after assigning a letter to the partition

Eg: (Taken from create partition steps)

• Type assign letter = e
• Now type format fs=ntfs quick
• Once the volume is formatted, type exit to close the program

Delete Partition using Diskpart:

• In command prompt type Diskpart.exe
• At Diskpart prompt type select disk 1
• Now type list volume (all the volumes will be listed, select the volume number you need to delete)
• Next type select volume 1
• Now type delete partition
• Finally type exit

There are few important things to be considered – Be careful while using Diskpart on dynamic disks. Also, make sure to backup hard drive before using Diskpart. You might lose data while formatting, extending, or partitioning hard drive. Suppose you haven’t backed up hard drive before using Diskpart and ended up losing data, then are files lost forever? Don’t worry, that’s not the case. With the help of YupTools Hard Drive Recovery software, you can restore hard drive data after repartition, format, resize, and so on.

Steps to Restore Partition Data Lost after Using Diskpart:

• Download YupTools Recover Hard Drive software on your system
• Install and run the software
• Select Recover Drives option from the main screen
• In the following screen, choose between Partition Recovery or Formatted/ Reformatted Recovery option depending on the data loss situation
• From the list of available disks, select the drive from which you have to recover data and hit Next
• Once the recovery process is completed, you can preview the recovered files
• Finally save the retrieved files using Save option

You can make use of YupTools Hard Drive Recovery application to retrieve data from unbootable drive, crashed hard disk, formatted partition, after reinstalling operating system, and so on. The tool is compatible with all Windows OS, including Windows 10. So it doesn’t matter how you lost data from hard drive, this software comes to your rescue to efficiently recover files.