Formatting device from a script on Windows

[weir]

this may help, you need ctypes module.

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from ctypes import *

fm = windll.LoadLibrary('fmifs.dll')

def myFmtCallback(command, modifier, arg):
    print command
    return 1	# TRUE

FMT_CB_FUNC = WINFUNCTYPE(c_int, c_int, c_int, c_void_p)


FMIFS_HARDDISK = 0x0C
fm.FormatEx(c_wchar_p('H:\\'), FMIFS_HARDDISK, c_wchar_p('NTFS'),
c_wchar_p('title'), True, c_int(0), FMT_CB_FUNC(myFmtCallback))