ModifyPartition (Standard 7 Package Reference)

7/8/2014

ModifyPartition specifies a single partition on a disk to be modified

One or more ModifyPartition list items can exist in the ModifyPartitions parent list.

The following table describes the modifications that can be made to various partition types. Extended and master boot record-based (MBR) partition types cannot be modified. The extensible firmware interface (EFI) partition types do not support Extend.

Partition	Active	Extend	Format	Letter	Label	TypeID
Primary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extended	No	No	No	No	No	No
Logical	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
EFI	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MSR	No	No	No	No	No	No

Child Elements

Active	Specifies whether the partition is active.
Extend	Specifies whether to extend the partition to use the remainder of the contiguous space on the hard disk.
Format	Specifies the file-system format to apply to the partition.
Label	Specifies the name to apply to the partition.
Letter	Specifies the drive letter to assign to the partition.
Order	Specifies the order in which the partition will be modified.
PartitionID	Specifies the identification number of the partition to modify.
TypeID	Specifies the hard drive partition type.

Valid Passes

windowsPE

See Also

Concepts

ModifyPartitions