

The fourth clears all data and partitions off of the disk. System ( you can only blame yourself if you select the wrong one). Those results are sent toįor the user to select the USB drive to format in case more than one USB drive is attached to the The second filters them to only ones that are USB drives. Walking through the previous command, the first line gets a list of all the disks attached to the $Results = Get-Disk | Where-Object BusType -eq USB | Out-GridView -Title 'Select USB Drive to Format' -OutputMode Single | Clear-Disk -RemoveData -RemoveOEM -Confirm: $false -PassThru | New-Partition -UseMaximumSize -IsActive -AssignDriveLetter | Format-Volume -FileSystem FAT32 Permanently delete all of the data on the selected USB drive. To create a bootable USB drive from an ISO, insert the USB drive into your computer and launch Out-GridView which is used in this blogĪrticle isn’t supported on Server Core (Windows Server without a graphical user interface). This is due to the newer WMI namespaces which theĬmdlets rely on not existing on older operating systems. Used in this blog article won’t exist on them. Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 with a GUI or higher is also required becauseĪlthough you can install PowerShell version 4.0+ on older operating systems, many of the commands The PowerShell commands in this blog article are written to be compatible with PowerShell versionĤ.0 and higher. Its predecessor, the fdisk command line utility. Diskpart which initially shipped with Windows 2000, reminds me way too much of They have me using the diskpartĬommand line utility. I always seem toįind tutorials that are using a process that’s almost 20 years old. Way to create a bootable USB drive from a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 ISO. It seems as if every time I need to reload a physical system, I’m searching the Internet to find a
