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Windows Core (No GUI)

See also more Hyper-V pages

List Volumes (Drive Letters)

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000854.htm

vol

wmic logicaldisk get name

Dismount a USB Flash Drive

fsutil

fsutil volume dismount VolumePathname

diskpart

Safely remove a USB disk from a windows server core installation:

  1. On command prompt type diskpart
  2. At the diskpart prompt, type list volume noting the number of your desired volume
  3. Type select volume x where 'x' is your USB storage device number
  4. Then type remove all dismount and press 'enter'
  5. Type exit to leave diskpart

GUI Configuration Tools for Windows Core Installations

Windows 2008: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/

Windows 2012: http://corefig.codeplex.com/

:!: This tool can only be run from the console of the system to be managed.

  1. At a command prompt, switch to the folder that you created in step 3 of the installation instructions:
    • CD /D C:\Corefig
  2. For the first run, run:
    • CSCRIPT Start_corefig.wsf
  3. You may use the Start_corefig script on each run, but on successive runs you could use the following instead:
    • POWERSHELL .\COREFIG.PS1