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• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10, ✅ Azure Stack HCI, versions 23H2 and 22H2

Prepares an existing simple dynamic volume for use as a boot or system volume. If you use a master boot record (MBR) dynamic disk, this command creates a partition entry in the master boot record. If you use a GUID partition table (GPT) dynamic disk, this command creates a partition entry in the GUID partition table.

Syntax

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