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# Clear-LocalDisk

This function is intended to run from WinPE and is ideally used to clear all Local Disks returned by Get-LocalDisk.  I use this to clear all Local Disks (OS and DATA) before an OS Deployment

## Getting Started

I strongly recommend running it without any parameters.  By default, the following information is presented

```
Clear-LocalDisk
```

1. -Verbose is enabled
2. Detected UEFI and PartitionStyle are displayed
3. Get-Help Clear-LocalDisk
4. Get-LocalDisk | Format-Table is displayed

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## -Force

When the `-Force` parameter is used, things are a little different

```
Clear-LocalDisk -Force
```

1. Get-LocalDisk | Format-Table is displayed
2. Confirm for each LocalDisk
3. Get-LocalDisk | Format-Table is updated and displayed
   1. PartitionStyle = RAW
   2. NumberofPartitions = 0

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## -Force -Confirm:$false

This leaves no room for error as there are no confirmation prompts

```
Clear-LocalDisk -Force -Confirm:$false
```

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## -Initialize

Adding this parameter will initialize the Disk in either GPT or MBR.  If the system is UEFI, then GPT is automatically enabled

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## -PartitionStyle

Using this parameter you can override the automatic selection of the PartitionStyle.  In this example, a UEFI with GPT would have been automatically selected, but specifying `-PartitionStyle MBR` overrode that

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