The WMI Format Drive action allows you to format a drive on a local or remote system.
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The disk to be formatted. The disk can be specified by its mount point, volume name or drive letter.
The volume label of the disk.
The file system which the disk will be formatted as. Possible file systems are Fat, Fat32 and NTFS.
Performs a quick format of the disk by not checking for bad sectors.
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The action will connect to the local machine, with the credentials of the current user.
The action will connect to a remote machine, using the specified user account.
The username can be specified either by just the username or DOMAIN/username
The computer which to connect to, if the remote computer is in a different domain then that of the current user account, a Fully Qualified Domain Name must be specified. An IPv4/IPv6 may also be specified.