Programmatically create/delete/wipe disk partition?

Question

Is there any library in the .NET Framework which allows us to create, delete & wipe out disk partition programmatically in .NET? (I am using VB.NET)

At the moment the option I'm using is going through dos command 'diskpart', which I feel is not efficient in coding point of view.

Check here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1232398/how-to-programically-format-sd-card-on-fat16-on-windows-net and here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8063538/format-a-drive-from-c-sharp — Tobiasz, Jul 01 '13 at 08:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 07 '15 at 13:46

Try this...

Imports System.Text

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Try
        Dim partitionLetter As String = "Q"
        Dim sb As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder()
        sb.AppendLine("SELECT DISK=0") 'Select the first disk drive
        sb.AppendLine("CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY") 'create new partition
        sb.AppendLine("ASSIGN LETTER=" + partitionLetter) 'assign letter
        sb.AppendLine("FORMAT FS=FAT32 LABEL=""FD"" QUICK") 'format new partition
        sb.AppendLine("EXIT")
        System.IO.File.WriteAllText("c:\part.scr", sb.ToString()) 'create diskpart script
        Process.Start("diskpart.exe", "/s c:\part.scr") 'run the script
    Catch ex As Exception
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
    End Try

End Sub

End Class

Programmatically create/delete/wipe disk partition?

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