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How to format a hard drive depending on the boot mode -
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The KACE SMA has the possibility to boot from UEFI or (legacy) BIOS.
Both boot procedures need a different setup of the hard drive to deploy and boot correctly.
Usually it is nessesary to setup multiple different deployments for UEFI and (legacy) BIOS, which costs time if they need to be changed.The example can be used for own tasks and modified as needed.
CODE WRITTEN BY KACE SUPPORT FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT SUPPORTED BY QUEST KACE TECHNICAL SUPPORT. CLIENT CONFIRMS THE NEED FOR TESTING AND ACCEPTS ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE AND MISUSE OF CODE. QUEST KACE SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR DAMAGE OR DOWN TIME RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS OR ANY CODE PRESENTED FOR PURPOSES OF TROUBLESHOOTING OR DEMONSTRATION
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CODE WRITTEN BY KACE SUPPORT FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT SUPPORTED BY QUEST KACE TECHNICAL SUPPORT. CLIENT CONFIRMS THE NEED FOR TESTING AND ACCEPTS ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE AND MISUSE OF CODE. QUEST KACE SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR DAMAGE OR DOWN TIME RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS OR ANY CODE PRESENTED FOR PURPOSES OF TROUBLESHOOTING OR DEMONSTRATIONThis task only works as a preinstall task, since only WinPE has the nessesary registry settings.
It creates all nessesary partitions plus one big partition on the primary hard drive.REG QUERY “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control” /v “PEFirmwareType” | Find “2”IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto UEFIIF %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto BIOSgoto END:UEFI(ECHO select disk 0ECHO cleanECHO convert basic noerrECHO convert gpt noerrECHO create partition efi size=200ECHO assign letter=sECHO format quick fs=FAT32ECHO create partition msr size=128ECHO create partition primaryECHO assign letter=cECHO format quick fs=NTFSECHO exit)>X:\Windows\System32\UEFI.txtdiskpart /s X:\Windows\System32\UEFI.txtgoto END:BIOS(ECHO select disk 0ECHO cleanECHO convert basic noerrECHO convert mbr noerrECHO create partition primary size=500ECHO select partition 1ECHO activeECHO assign letter=sECHO format quick fs=NTFSECHO create partition primaryECHO select partition 2ECHO assign letter=cECHO format quick fs=NTFSECHO exit)>X:\Windows\System32\BIOS.txtdiskpart /s X:\Windows\System32\BIOS.txtbootsect.exe /NT60 c:goto END:END