Is there a way to partition, format, and copy files to hard drive without rebooting?

[Trader05]

I'm trying to make a boot disk so it can partition, format and copy system files all in one shot. I'm currently using the program AEFDISK. I can create and format the drive with Fat32 but i can not access the drive in dos unless i reboot. Is there any way to get around this?

 

[DnetMHZ]

Do it once manually and create a Ghost image of the partition.

 

[TonyRic]

Any change to the partition table requires it to be reread. In dos the dos kernel and command shell have no facility to do this, therefore requiring a reboot. This might be different in some of the latest versions of DOS (post year 2000 versions) but not up to MSDOS 6.2/PCDOS 6.2