Due to the bugginess of Acronis 10.0.11345 I had a situation where I needed to format a removable storage device before a backup plan was scheduled to run. A quick play with the format command and I couldn't get it to run without user interaction. After a bit of research I came across the diskpart command which can be scripted using the /s switch. Create a file with the commands you would like to run eg and save it as format.txt:
Select Volume E:
format FS=NTFS QUICK NOERR OVERRIDE
It goes without saying to change the volume letter to one that matches your configuration. All you have to do is run
diskpart /s format.txt and the specified volume letter will be formatted.
This is not limited to RDX devices and so may come in handy for formatting other devices.
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