How to script diskpart for partition management in ControlUp without timeouts?

probably an easy one but i’m trying to make a script to run some diskpart commands but not having much luck (keeps timing out). specifically i added disk space but Windows has a 500mb recovery partition that i need to delete first). i can manually take care of it w/ disk part by running: diskpart, select disk 0 , select partition 2, delete partition override, select partition 1, extend

This is what I use to extend the drives with a recovery partition. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/qbggff/comment/imj0sc9/

thanks! so have you put this all in a script and had it work?

Haven’t tried it in a script, just use it in my lab.

and if you run the reagentc /disable command first, if you then go into diskpart can you just use the delete partition override right away or i assume you need to manually select the correct recovery volume first right so it knows which one?

You would need to select partition X and then do a delete partition.

ok cool so the only difference i guess is to make sure to run the reagentc commands to make sure it doesnt break stuff

I’ve slept since but I seem to remember not being able to delete the partition otherwise. You had to use 3rd party partitioning tools to move the volume.

cool ya i’ve been able to easily just go right into diskpart and run the commands i listed above and then extend w/out an issue for what its worth. i just can’t get it to work in controlup for some reason. manually running it works fine

alright i found what i was doing wrong and this ended up working. thanks for the help!“`reagentc /disable

(echo Rescan

echo list disk

echo select disk 0

echo list volume

echo select volume 2

echo delete partition override

echo list volume

echo select volume 1

echo extend

) | diskpart

reagentc /enable

exit“`You can also do this with powershell @member

“`# Import the Storage module

Import-Module Storage

Run DiskPart commands

$diskNumber = 0

$volumeNumber1 = 1

$volumeNumber2 = 2

Rescan disks

Update-HostStorageCache

List disks

Get-PhysicalDisk

Select disk

$disk = Get-PhysicalDisk -DeviceID $diskNumber

$disk | Select-Object -Property *

List volumes

Get-Volume

Select volume

$volume = Get-Volume -PartitionStyle GPT | Where-Object { $_.UniqueId -eq $volumeNumber2 }

$volume | Select-Object -Property *

Delete partition

Remove-Partition -DiskNumber $diskNumber -PartitionNumber $volume.PartitionNumber -Confirm:$false

List volumes

Get-Volume

Select volume

$volume = Get-Volume -PartitionStyle GPT | Where-Object { $_.UniqueId -eq $volumeNumber1 }

$volume | Select-Object -Property *

Extend volume

Resize-Partition -DriveLetter $volume.DriveLetter -Size $volume.Size

Enable diskpart-like confirmation output

Set-Partition -DiskNumber $diskNumber -PartitionNumber $volume.PartitionNumber -NewDriveLetter $volume.DriveLetter

Enable Windows Recovery Environment (RE)

reagentc /enable

Exit the script

exit“`

According to Chat-GPT 😉Very nice! Thank you! I’ll give that a try too

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