Hi, Diskpart is one of those annoying Microsoft command line tools where the syntax is getting there, but still annoying :). However, it does do quite a lot of things, it's just knowing which command to use, and knowing that you may have to play with a disk for a while before you get exactly what you want. I never know why they couldn't just emulate the Linux fdisk command - it is just so much easier in comparison. The other thing I always seem to do is to exit out of something like diskpart, but then use one of the commands in diskpart - something I can do for example in LVM, but not any wyindows programs I have used. I can't find any other way in disk manager other than using virtual focus to right clikc on a disk at the disk level and choose to create a new partition. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: 26 August 2008 23:04 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] jfw9 and disk management My biggest frustration with Disk Management is right after I plug a new disk into a machine. The initial configuration wizard comes up automatically to ask if you want to make the disk basic or dynamic, etc. but the new partition wizard does not come up automatically. Its in one of the context menus that if I right click on enough things I'll eventually get, I've never messed much with Diskpart though. Is this doable there and any easier? Right clicking and looking through context menus gets old after a while. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:54 PM To: dave.mehler@gmail.com; Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] jfw9 and disk management Hi, Unfortunately have had to resort to using the virtual cursor, diskpart can be useful on many volumes, but on some USB external drives doesn't work so well. I find that the only real times I have had to use the virtual cursor in Disk Management is to actually perform an operation on a specific element, I would rather trust the virtual cursor than using the list view at the top of the screen, as that only gives you active partitions, and does not let you do operations on a whole disk. Andrew. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 26 August 2008 21:00 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] jfw9 and disk management Hello, I'm using jfw9 on a 2000 and/or xp and/or 2003 virtual machine, in any case i need to use the disk management applet under administrative tools. Thus far i've not found this applet particularly accessible, does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins