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    Disk Management is a Windows tool that allows full management of disk drives, including partitioning and formatting drives, assigning drive letters, and checking free space. It can be accessed through Computer Management in the Control Panel or by running diskmgmt.msc. Disk Management displays partitions and drive information in two panes that can be customized. Common tasks include partitioning, formatting, changing drive letters, and resizing partitions.

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    Disk Management is a Windows tool that allows full management of disk drives, including partitioning and formatting drives, assigning drive letters, and checking free space. It can be accessed through Computer Management in the Control Panel or by running diskmgmt.msc. Disk Management displays partitions and drive information in two panes that can be customized. Common tasks include partitioning, formatting, changing drive letters, and resizing partitions.

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    Disk Management is a Windows tool that allows full management of disk drives, including partitioning and formatting drives, assigning drive letters, and checking free space. It can be accessed through Computer Management in the Control Panel or by running diskmgmt.msc. Disk Management displays partitions and drive information in two panes that can be customized. Common tasks include partitioning, formatting, changing drive letters, and resizing partitions.

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    Disk Management

    Everything you need to know about this Windows tool

    Disk Management is an extension of the Microsoft Management Console that allows full
    management of the disk-based hardware recognized by Windows. 

    It's used to manage the drives installed in a computer—like hard disk drives (internal and
    external), optical disk drives, and flash drives. It can be used to partition and format drives, assign
    drive letters, and much more.

    NOTE: Disk Management is sometimes spelling incorrectly


    as Disc Management. Also, even though they might sound
    similar, it's not the same as Device Manager.

    Disk Management Availability 


    Disk Management is available in most versions of Microsoft Windows
    including Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows
    Vista, Windows XP , and Windows 2000.

    NOTE: Even though it's available in all of these operating systems, some


    small differences in the utility do exist from one Windows version to the
    next.

    How to Open Disk Management 


    The most common way to access Disk Management is via the Computer
    Management utility, which you can get to from Administrative Tools  in
    the Control Panel .
    It can also be started by executing diskmgmt.msc via the Command
    Prompt or another command-line interface in Windows.

    How to Use Disk Management 


    Disk Management has two main sections—a top and a bottom:

     The top section contains a list of all the partitions, formatted or not,
    that Windows recognizes.
     The bottom section contains a graphical representation of the
    physical drives installed in the computer.

    The panes and menus you see are customizable, so if you've ever changed
    the settings, the above might not be exactly how the program looks to you.
    For example, you can change the top pane to be the graphical
    representation and disable the bottom pane entirely. Use the View menu to
    change where the panes are displayed.

    Performing certain actions on the drives or partitions make them available


    or unavailable to Windows and configure 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

    More Information 
    The Disk Management tool has a graphical interface like a regular
    program and is similar in function to the command line utility diskpart,
    which was a replacement of an earlier utility called fdisk.

    You can also use Disk Management to check free hard drive space . Look
    under the Capacity and Free Space columns (in the Disk List or Volume
    List view) to see the total storage capacity of all the disks as well as how
    much free space is remaining, which is expressed in units (i.e., MB and
    GB) as well as a percentage.

    Disk Management is where you can create and attach virtual hard disk
    files in Windows 10 and Windows 8. These are single files that act as hard
    drives, which means you can store them on your main hard drive or in
    other places like external hard drives. To build a virtual disk file with the
    VHD or VHDX file extension, use the Action >Create VHD menu.
    Opening one is done through the Attach VHD option.

    The View menu is how you can change which panes you see at the top and
    bottom and how you change the colors and patterns Disk Management
    uses to display unallocated space, free space, logical drives, spanned
    volumes, RAID-5 volumes, and other disk regions.

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