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    Windows 7 Disk Management - Manage Disk Space in Windows 7

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    Windows 7 Disk Management allows users to manage disk partitions and space. It can format partitions, change drive letters, extend or shrink volumes, and check partition properties. There are three main ways to access Disk Management in Windows 7: through the Computer icon, Control Panel, or by running the diskmgmt.msc command. Disk Management can be used to create new partitions, fix low disk space issues by shrinking and extending volumes, and similar free partition software may provide more features than the Windows Disk Management tool.

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    Windows 7 Disk Management - Manage Disk Space in Windows 7

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    Windows 7 Disk Management allows users to manage disk partitions and space. It can format partitions, change drive letters, extend or shrink volumes, and check partition properties. There are three main ways to access Disk Management in Windows 7: through the Computer icon, Control Panel, or by running the diskmgmt.msc command. Disk Management can be used to create new partitions, fix low disk space issues by shrinking and extending volumes, and similar free partition software may provide more features than the Windows Disk Management tool.

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    Windows 7 Disk Management allows users to manage disk partitions and space. It can format partitions, change drive letters, extend or shrink volumes, and check partition properties. There are three main ways to access Disk Management in Windows 7: through the Computer icon, Control Panel, or by running the diskmgmt.msc command. Disk Management can be used to create new partitions, fix low disk space issues by shrinking and extending volumes, and similar free partition software may provide more features than the Windows Disk Management tool.

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    Windows 7 Disk Management - Manage Disk Space in Windows 7

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    Windows 7 Disk Management allows users to manage disk partitions and space. It can format partitions, change drive letters, extend or shrink volumes, and check partition properties. There are three main ways to access Disk Management in Windows 7: through the Computer icon, Control Panel, or by running the diskmgmt.msc command. Disk Management can be used to create new partitions, fix low disk space issues by shrinking and extending volumes, and similar free partition software may provide more features than the Windows Disk Management tool.

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    Windows 7 Disk Management

    What does Windows 7 Disk Management do? As its name showing,


    Disk Management is a manger that provides solution for disk space
    management. As a disk management tool, Windows 7 Disk
    Management has the basic functions including mark partition as
    active, change drive letter and paths, format volume and delete
    volume. You can also check the Properties of each partition on your
    computer under Disk Management on Win7. In addition to those
    basic functions, Windows 7 Disk Management has two new features
    compared to Windows XP, which are extend volume and shrink
    volume.
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    3 Ways to Access Windows 7 Disk
    Management
    If you want to perform any task under Disk Management in Windows
    7, you must know how to access it. Here are 3 common methods to
    access Disk Management tool in Windows 7

    Method1. Right click "Computer" icon on Windows 7 desktop > click


    "Manage" > click "Disk Management"

    This method is usually easy to handle, so most Windows 7 users


    would like to access Disk Management with this method.
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    Method2: Click "Start" button on taskbar of Windows 7 > click
    "Control Panel" > "click "System and Security" > "click
    "Administrative Tools" > double click the "Computer Management" >
    click "Disk Management"
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    Method3: Click "Start" button on the Windows 7 taskbar and click
    "Run" option (you can also press Win + R to open Run box) > type
    "diskmgmt.msc" in the box and then press "Enter" button to open
    disk management.

    Features of Disk Management in Win7


    Based on its name, it is easy to understand that you can format
    partition, delete partition, change drive letter and paths, extend
    partition and shrink partition after accessing Disk Management in
    Win 7. Based on those basic features, you can resolve some related
    problem occurred on Windows 7. Here are some related possible
    issues that you can resolve with Windows 7 Disk Management:
    1. Create a new partition with Disk Management in Windows 7

    During the usage of your computer, you may want to create a new
    partition sometimes. On Windows 7, you do not need to repartition
    hard drive in order to create a new partition. You just need to follow
    the guide below to create new partition on Windows 7:

    Step1. Right click a partition under Disk Management on Windows 7


    and click "Shrink Volume" option.
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    Step2. Enter the amount of space you want to shrink and then click
    "Shrink" button so that you can get some unallocated space.

    Step3. Right click the unallocated volume and click "New Simple
    Volume"
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    Step4. Follow the wizard to format the unallocated space and assign
    a drive letter to this volume, after which you can create a new
    partition.

    2. Fix low disk space problem on Windows 7 with Disk


    Management

    Another feature is that you can fix low disk space problem on
    Windows 7 with Disk Management. When a partition, especially
    system partition is running out of disk space, Windows 7 will report
    low disk space warning to ask you to free up disk space. If you
    encounter the low disk space issue on Windows 7, you can rely on
    the shrink volume and extend volume functions on Disk Management
    to resolve this problem on Windows 7.

    First of all, you can refer to step1 and step2 mentioned above to get
    some unallocated space in Disk Management on Win7. Then, you can
    right click the partition which shows before the unallocated space
    and then click "Extend Volume" to add the unallocated space to the
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    selected partition.

    Tip: You can only extend the partition which is contiguous to the
    unallocated space on Windows 7 Disk Management.

    Free Partition Software Similar to Windows 7


    Disk Management
    If you have ever run Windows 7 Disk Management to perform some
    tasks to resolve problem, you may find that it sometimes has
    limitations. In this situation, you can run free partition software which
    works similarly to Disk Management but has no limitation to format
    partition, delete partition, shrink partition, extend partition, move
    partition and do more on Windows 7.

    Download IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free Edition


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