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Select disk

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Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista

Selects the specified disk and shifts the focus to it.

For examples of how this command can be used, see Examples.

Syntax

select disk={ <n> | <disk path> | system | next }

Note

The <disk path>, system, and next parameters are only available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Parameters

Parameter Description

<n>

Specifies the number of the disk to receive focus. You can view the numbers for all the disks on the computer by using the list disk command in DiskPart.

Note
When configuring systems with multiple disks, do not use select disk=0 to specify the system disk. The computer may reassign disk numbers when you reboot, and different computers with the same disk configuration can have different disk numbers.

<disk path>

Specifies the location of the disk to receive focus, for example, PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0F02)#ATA(C00T00L00). To view the location path of a disk, select it and then type detail disk.

system

On BIOS computers, specifies that disk 0 receives focus. On EFI computers, the disk containing the EFI system partition (ESP) that is used for the current boot receives focus. On EFI computers, the command will fail if there is no ESP, if there is more than one ESP, or the computer is booted from Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).

next

Once a disk is selected, this command iterates over all disks in the disk list. When you run this command, the next disk in the list will receive focus.

Examples

To shift the focus to disk 1, type:

select disk=1

To select a disk by using its location path, type:

select disk=PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0100)#ATA(C00T00L01)

To shift the focus to the system disk, type:

select disk=system

To shift the focus to the next disk on the computer, type:

select disk=next

Additional references

Command-Line Syntax Key

DiskPart