How to create D drive for multiple computers?

Question

Dear experts,

I received a request from a user who asked to place some documents on D drive, however our standard OS is creating only C drive for all the computers that run Windows 10 Education Pro.
We have around 100pcs computers sitting there with other software in place.

Is there any automatic way that we can use PowerShell, SCCM or other programs to achieve this goal?
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

@Eaven HUANG
It can be done through ConfigMgr (Previously SCCM) using a custom task sequence provided that ConfigMgr agent is already deployed to your clients.
The task sequence could contain these steps:

1. Resize C drive to make room for an additional D drive
2. Create D drive from the unallocated space and format it

You must exercise extra caution and do thorough testing as any mistake might wipe the disk and cause data loss.

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Answer 2

Hi @Eaven HUANG ,

You can use New-Partition to create the new partition and Format-Volume to format the volume, however there should be unallocated space on the current disk or new disks attached to the computers. Say the D drive is created with the unallocated space on the existing disk, you can try something like this

$cred = Get-Credential  
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computers -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock {  
    Get-Disk | New-Partition -DriveLetter D -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS  
}  

Please refer to below links for more details
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/new-partition
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/format-volume

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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