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    Disk Management is a utility that allows users to manage partitions and disks. It can be used to create, delete, format partitions and assign drive letters. Disk Management can be accessed through Computer Management, by running diskmgmt.msc, or using keyboard shortcuts. Common tasks include partitioning drives, formatting, changing drive letters, shrinking/extending partitions, and deleting partitions. To partition a drive, the user right clicks unallocated space and selects "New Simple Volume" to start the wizard to size, assign a letter, and format the new partition.

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    Disk Management: By: Mas

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    Disk Management is a utility that allows users to manage partitions and disks. It can be used to create, delete, format partitions and assign drive letters. Disk Management can be accessed through Computer Management, by running diskmgmt.msc, or using keyboard shortcuts. Common tasks include partitioning drives, formatting, changing drive letters, shrinking/extending partitions, and deleting partitions. To partition a drive, the user right clicks unallocated space and selects "New Simple Volume" to start the wizard to size, assign a letter, and format the new partition.

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    Disk Management is a utility that allows users to manage partitions and disks. It can be used to create, delete, format partitions and assign drive letters. Disk Management can be accessed through Computer Management, by running diskmgmt.msc, or using keyboard shortcuts. Common tasks include partitioning drives, formatting, changing drive letters, shrinking/extending partitions, and deleting partitions. To partition a drive, the user right clicks unallocated space and selects "New Simple Volume" to start the wizard to size, assign a letter, and format the new partition.

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    Disk Management: By: Mas

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    Ensha Anwash
    Disk Management is a utility that allows users to manage partitions and disks. It can be used to create, delete, format partitions and assign drive letters. Disk Management can be accessed through Computer Management, by running diskmgmt.msc, or using keyboard shortcuts. Common tasks include partitioning drives, formatting, changing drive letters, shrinking/extending partitions, and deleting partitions. To partition a drive, the user right clicks unallocated space and selects "New Simple Volume" to start the wizard to size, assign a letter, and format the new partition.

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    BY: MAS

    Disk Management
    What is Disk Management?

    Disk Management is a utility built


    into different operating systems
    which can be used to create, delete,
    format partitions, assign drive
    letters, and much more. Disk
    Management can also be used to
    view partitions and their formatted
    file systems on the hard drive.
    How To Access Disk Management?

    The most common way to access


    Disk Management is via Computer
    Management:

    There are several method to


    access the Disk Management,
    Some are given on next slide.
     Method 1 - Start > Control Panel
    > Administrative Tools. Double
    click Computer Management and
    then click Disk Management in the
    left hand column.
     Method 2 - Click Start > Run and
    type diskmgmt.msc in the Open:
    line and click OK. The Disk
    Management snap-in will open.
    Method 3 - By default,
    Administrative Tools is not shown on
    the Start Menu but if you have
    modified the Start Menu (by right
    clicking the Start button and
    selecting Properties > Customize) so
    it is shown then just select Start >
    Administrative Tools > Computer
    Management and then click Disk
    Management in the left hand
    column.
    Opening D.M From CLI
    The Disk Management command is
    the same in all versions of Windows
    so these instructions apply
    to Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows
    Vista, and Windows XP.
    Follow these easy steps to start Disk
    Management from the Command
    Prompt in Windows:
     In Windows 7 and Windows Vista,
    click on the Start button.
     In Windows XP and earlier, click
    on Start and then Run.
     Type the following command in the
    text box:
     diskmgmt.msc
     ...and then hit the Enter key or press
    the OK button, depending on where
    you ran the command from.
    Note: Technically, opening Disk
    Management from the Command
    Prompt would require that you
    actually open the Command
    Prompt program. However,
    running an executable program
    like diskmgmt.msc from the
    search or run box accomplishes
    the same thing.
    Another Way of Opening D.M

    Just press the WIN and X keys


    together to bring up the menu, then
    click on the Disk
    Management shortcut. Beginning
    with the Windows 8.1 update,
    right-clicking on the Start button
    works to bring up the Power User
    Menu too.
    How To Use Disk Management
     Disk Management has two main
    sections - a top and a bottom:
     The bottom section of Disk
    Management contains a graphical
    representation of the physical drives
    installed in the computer.
     The top section of Disk Management
    contains a list of all the partitions,
    formatted or not, that Windows
    recognizes.
     Performing certain actions on the
    drives or partitions make them
    available or unavailable to
    Windows and configures them to
    be used by Windows in certain
    ways.
     Here are some common things
    that you can do in Disk
    Management:
     Partition a Drive
     Format a Drive
     Change a Drive's Letter
     Shrink a Partition
     Extend a Partition
     Delete a Partition
     Change a Drive's File System
    Partition a Hard Drive
    To partition a hard drive in Windows
    7 means to divide the hard drive into
    parts and make those parts available
    to the operating system. It's also
    possible for an entire hard drive to
    have a single partition, which oddly
    enough is actually the most common
    way to partition a hard drive.
    Steps For Partition

    In Disk Management’s Graphical


    view, right-click an unallocated or
    free area, and then click New
    Simple Volume. This starts the New
    Simple Volume Wizard.
     Read the Welcome page and then
    click Next.

     The Specify Volume Size page


    specifies the minimum and
    maximum size for the volume in
    megabytes and lets you size the
    volume within these limits. Size
    the partition in megabytes using
    the Simple Volume Size field and
    then click Next.
    On the Assign Drive Letter Or
    Path page, specify whether you
    want to assign a drive letter or
    path and then click Next. The
    available options are as follows:
    Use the Format Partition page to
    determine whether and how the
    volume should be formatted. If
    you want to format the volume,
    choose Format This Volume With
    The Following Settings, and then
    configure the following options:
    Click Next, confirm your options,
    and then click Finish.
    The Windows 7 Disk Management
    tool will now show the space
    configured as a new partition.
    Shrink a Partition

    Here’s an easy way to shrink a


    volume to free up space so you can
    create a new partition on your disk.

    To shrink a basic volume follow


    these steps:
    In Disk Management, right-click
    the volume that you want to
    shrink, and then click Shrink
    Volume.
    In the field provided in the Shrink
    dialog box, enter the amount of
    space by which to shrink the disk.
    Click Shrink.
    Once you have unallocated space,
    you can use that space to create a
    new partition by repeating above
    partition steps.

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