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Unattended format
Name: UKNemesis Date: January 26, 2005 at 02:19:26 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 server CPU/Ram: Duel Xeon P4
Comment:
Hi, I run a network with a number of client computers. We have a shared PC that everyone uses with a scanner, DVD burner etc on it.
To allow users to transfer files to and from their PC or the network to the scanner / DVD burner I have a temporary shared 10 gig hard drive.
So this drive doesn't get cluttered up I'd like to write a small one line batch program that can run in windows scheduler to format the drive each week on a saturday night so it is empty for the following week.
I've tried to do this but cannot get past the DOS warning saying ABOUT TO ERASE ALL DATA (Y/N)
Is there any way of running an unattended format of this drive to clean it off automatically?
Name: IVO Date: January 26, 2005 at 02:29:21 Pacific
Reply:
Try the following code
Echo Y | Format /V:VolumeLabel /Q
Post again if you need more support.
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Response Number 2
Name: rogerashley Date: January 26, 2005 at 02:35:27 Pacific
Reply:
If you need to post again please can you put it in the programming or your O/S forum.
This is a NT Command prompt question not a MSDOS Command Prompt question.
Thankyou
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Response Number 3
Name: JackG Date: January 26, 2005 at 13:06:05 Pacific
Reply:
You could also try:
DELTREE /y d:\*.*
as it will delete all files and folders on a drive, if the "DOS" on your system supports the DOS DELTREE command (XP does not).
That is what I like about DOS, more than one way to do some things.
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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: January 26, 2005 at 20:52:52 Pacific
Reply:
It's a little surprising that XP does not support deltree.
w2k does; and they're more alike than different.
M2
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Response Number 5
Name: IVO Date: January 27, 2005 at 08:28:56 Pacific
Reply:
To Mechanix2Go,
Yes, XP does not support DelTree as the command RD has the (quite) same behavior.
And by the way thank you to help the posters while I'm sleeping (yes, I sleep sometimes opposite to Terminator). I'm a lone player, but "de facto" a team is born.
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Response Number 6
Name: dtech10 Date: January 29, 2005 at 13:56:48 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Deltree will work on WinXP, if you get the version from a Win98 disk it's in Win98_40.cab.
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