Partitioning drives

I'm writing a app. that configures a system.

i have much of it completed, however, i'm having difficulties partitioning hard drives.

I'm able to do it using diskpart as a process and specifying the parameters file.

However, i don't want to use external tools/apps.

Currently, i'm doing it like so....

Dim prcAs Process

prc = Process.Start(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMSPEC"),diskpart .... etc")

Does anyone know of a way to partition a disk using only VB and .Net objects?

I don't really care if it has to use winapi's or imports on dll's. But i'm trying to avoid using a command processor.

Dustin.

[1593 byte] By [Dustin_H] at [2007-12-24]