How does Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) OS Deployment Feature Pack handle an unpartitioned disk?

A. By default the SMS OS Deployment Feature Pack will create a single partition and perform a full NTFS format on a blank disk. If you want to control this behavior and perhaps perform a quick format instead of full format, you can use a script to run in the SMS OS Deployment Feature Pack's preinstallation stage to partition and format the disk. To do so, use the following code, which you can download at http://www.windowsitpro.com/content/content/47384/formatdisk.zip . The code runs the DiskPart utility and calls the ZTIDiskPart.txt file to create the partitions. (Some lines wrap because of space constraints.)

' Run DiskPart.
   iRetVal = wshShell.Run("DISKPART.EXE /s  & <folder> &_ "\ZTIDiskPart.txt, 0, true)
If iRetVal <> Success then
  EXIT FUNCTION
End if

' Now format.
iRetVal = wshShell.Run("FORMAT C: /FS:NTFS /Q /V: /Y", 0, true)
If iRetVal <> Success then
  EXIT FUNCTION
End if

ZSTIDiskPart.txt:

select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
assign letter=c:
active
exit

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