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Diskpart
Creates and deletes partitions on a hard drive. The diskpart command is only available when you are using the Windows 2000 Recovery Console, which can be started from the Windows 2000 Setup program.

diskpart [/add | /delete] [device_name | drive_name | partition_name] [size]

Parameters    none
Used without parameters, the diskpart command starts the Windows 2000 character-mode version of diskpart

/add    Creates a new partition.

/delete    Deletes an existing partition.  
device_name  The device on which you want to create or delete a partition. The name can be obtained from the output of the map command. An example of a device name is:  \Device\HardDisk0

drive_name    The partition you want to delete, by drive letter. Used only with /delete. An example of a drive name is:  D:

partition_name    The partition you want to delete, by partition name. Can be used in place of the drive_name. Used only with /delete. An example of a partition name is:   \Device\HardDisk0\Partition1

size    The size, in megabytes (MB), of the partition you want to create. Used only with /add.   

Examples

The following examples delete a partition:

diskpart /delete \Device\HardDisk0\Partition3

diskpart /delete F: 

The following example adds a 20 MB partition to your hard drive:

diskpart /add \Device\HardDisk0 20