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Creates a partition or shadow on a disk, a volume on one or more disks, or a virtual hard disk (VHD). Windows commands reference

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Creates a partition or shadow on a disk, a volume on one or more disks, or a virtual hard disk (VHD). If you're using this command to create a volume on the shadow disk, you must already have at least one volume in the shadow copy set.

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Before you create a partition, run list disk to identify the intended basic disk, then use the select disk command to give it focus. In the following example, replace <disk-number> with the number of the basic disk you want. To create a 1000-MB primary partition on the disk with focus

select disk <disk-number>
create partition primary size=1000

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Volume commands create volumes on dynamic disks that you specify by number. To create a 1000-MB simple volume on dynamic disk 1

create volume simple size=1000 disk=1Identify

To create a 1000-MB mirrored volume across dynamic disks 1 and 2

create volume mirror size=1000 disk=1,2Identify

To create a 1000-MB striped volume across dynamic disks 1 and 2

create volume stripe size=1000 disk=1,2Identify

To create a 1000-MB RAID-5 volume across dynamic disks 1, 2, and 3

create volume raid size=1000 disk=1,2,3Identify

create partition primary commandCreates a primary partition on the basic disk with focus.

create partition efi commandCreates an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition on a GUID Partition Table (gpt) disk on Itanium-based computers.

create partition extended commandCreates an extended partition on the disk with focus.

create partition logical commandCreates a logical partition in an existing extended partition.

create partition msr commandCreates a Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition on a GUID partition table (gpt) disk.

create volume simple commandCreates a simple volume on the specified dynamic disk.

create volume mirror commandCreates a volume mirror by using the two specified dynamic disks.

create volume raid commandCreates a RAID-5 volume using three or more specified dynamic disks.

create volume stripe commandCreates a striped volume using two or more specified dynamic disks.

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Starts the shadow copy creation process using the current context and option settings. Requires at least one volume in the Shadow Copy Set.

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