Run Diskpart from within c#

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_{Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:17 PM}

How can I run Diskpart from within a from application as follows

diskpart

list disk

select disk

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_{Friday, March 6, 2015 10:56 AM ✅Answered}

Please have another look at the code in the blog post it is running DiskPart.exe not cmd.exe...

Process p = new Process();                                    // new instance of Process class
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;                          // do not start a new shell
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;                    // Redirects the on screen results
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Windows\System32\diskpart.exe";   // executable to run
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;                     // Redirects the input commands
p.Start();                    

_{Friday, March 6, 2015 12:08 AM}

You can use Process to start and control external processes. There is a blog post here on doing so with DiskPart. Hope it helps.

_{Friday, March 6, 2015 9:38 AM}

I had already used what you suggested but it doesnot work.

I already tried to run

Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/k diskpart /s myscript.txt>> output.log");      

with my script as

   diskpart
   list disk
   select disk 1
   clean
   create partition primary
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=ntfs quick
   assign
   exit

but this doesnt work too    

_{Friday, March 6, 2015 11:19 AM}

thanks alot

the reason that it doesnot work is that

when i use diskpart.exe in another directory even if it is marked as run as administrator

            p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\command1\command1\bin\Debug\diskpart.exe";   // executable to run

it doesn't work

but the following works fine

            p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\windows\system32\diskpart.exe";   // executable to run