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Prepare Farmer Drives [DEPRECATED]

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This guide has been deprecated by Prepare Farmer Disks - diskpart (CLI)

Identify Drives​

The most important step is identifying your disks. Bring up the Terminal by pressing WIN + x and selecting "Terminal (Admin)". Then start "diskpart"

diskpart

There are a few methods to identify the appropriate drives. Start by listing the disks:

list disk

list-disk

In this example, I know the disk I plan to use is 240GB, which equates to roughly 223GiB. The Disk Management tool can also be used to identify the disk by pressing WIN + x and selecting "Disk Management". As with "diskpart", I can see that the disk I want is "Disk 2" since it has 223GiB. Take note of the disk number as it will be needed in the next section.

disk-management

Wipe the Drives​

Back in diskpart, select the disk to be wiped

select disk <DISK NUMBER>

Then clean the drive

clean

clean

Partition, Format, and Label the drive​

Create the primary partition

create partition primary

create-parition-primary

Format the drive with NTFS and give it a Label

format fs=ntfs label=<YOUR-LABEL> quick

Replace <YOUR-LABEL> with a label of your choosing. It's best to choose something that makes the disk easily identifiable.

format-fs

Assign a drive letter

assign letter=X

assign-x

Verify​

Throughout the previous few steps, Windows has likely mentioned a new drive was identified. To verify it has all gone well open up "This PC" and check for the drive

this-pc