I have built a custom WinPE based on W2012 and included Powershell and a number of the Powershell CMDLets such as SMB, DISM, and Storage. Everything works fine. When you boot the WinPE disk and do a get-command -module Storage, it shows all of the Storage CMDlets. I am trying to do some simple automation and wrote a very simple script to initialize, partiion and format a disk
Initialize-disk 1 -PartitionStyle MBR
New-Partition -diskNumber 1 -DriveLetter L -UseMaximumSize | `
Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "Stuff"
When I run this script on a W2012 server it works fine. When I run it from by WinPE disk the Format does not work. No error messages. Nothing. The first 2 statments work but the disk never is formatted and no label is assigned. The same is true with the Clear-Disk Cmdlet. I execute it under W2012 and it works fine. When I execute it under Win-PE it just returns to me and does nothing. I even tried just executing the Format-Volume Cmdlet by itself on WinPE and got the same result -- it immediately came back with no error message and did nothing.
It seems like some cmdlets work and some don't. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks
Roger
Roger