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Operation performed on disk
Different
types of disk
management Tools
Advantage and disadvantage
Disk Management
What is disk management?
Microsoft Windows utility that was
introduced with Windows XP as a
replacement to the f-disk command that
enables users to view and manage the
disk drives installed in their computer and
the partitions associated with those drives.
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Extended Volume
You can add more space to existing primary
partitions and logical drives by extending them
into adjacent unallocated space on the same
disk.
Toextend a basic volume, it must be raw or
formatted with the NTFS(New Technology File
System) file system.
You can extend a logical drive within
contiguous free space in the extended
partition that contains it.
If you extend a logical drive beyond
the free space available in the
extended partition, the extended
partition grows to contain the logical
drive.
Shrink value
You can decrease the space used by
primary partitions and logical drives by
shrinking them into adjacent, contiguous
space on the same disk.
For example, if you discover that you
need an additional partition but do not
have additional disks, you can shrink the
existing partition from the end of the
volume to create new unallocated space
that can then be used for a new partition.
Change driver letter and path
You can use Disk Management to
assign a mount-point folder path (rather
than a drive letter) to the drive.
Mount-point folder paths are available
only on empty folders on basic or
dynamic NTFS volumes.
Reactivate Volume
A dynamic disk may become Offline if it is
corrupted or intermittently unavailable.
A dynamic disk may also become Offline if
you attempt to import a foreign (dynamic)
disk and the import fails.
An error icon appears on the Offline disk.
Only dynamic disks display the Missing or
Offline status.
Install disks in the new computer
If the disks are external, plug them into the
computer.
If the disks are internal, make sure the
computer is turned off and then physically
install the disks in that computer.
Start the computer that contains the disks
you moved and follow the instructions on
the Found New Hardware dialog box.
Initialize Disk
New disks appear as Not Initialized.
Before you can use a disk, you must first
initialize it.
If you start Disk Management after adding a
disk, the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you
can initialize the disk.
The disk is initialized as a basic disk.
Disk Management Tools
Here are some of the free tools for
partitioning, cloning, diagnostics, repair,
recovery, encryption, wiping or drive
information
Different types of disk
management Tools
Test Disk
The choice of actions you can perform on each
partition include:
1. analyzing the partition for the
correct structure (and
Test Disk allows you to repair boot repairing it accordingly if a
problem is found)
sectors, recover deleted partitions, fix
damaged partition tables, and recover
2. changing the disk geometry
deleted data, as well as copy all
3. deleting files
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partition table
deleted/inaccessible partitions.
4. recovering the boot sector
5. listing and copying files
6. recovering deleted files
7. creating an image of the
partition
WinDirStat (Windows Directory
Static)
WinDirStat is a disk usage and clean-
up utility that allows you to visualize how
data is distributed across a disk and
what types of data or which locations
are hogging up most space.
Defraggler
Defraggler is a lightweight yet
powerful defragmentation tool that
allows you to defrag whole drives or
selected files/folders.
It has an intuitive interface that helps
you to quickly visualize how much of
the drive is fragmented and which
files are causing most fragmentation.
HD Tune
HD Tune can measure the read/write
performance of your HDD/SSD, scan for
errors, check the health status and
display drive information.
Recuva
In a few simple clicks, Recuva allows you to recover
files from your computer that were accidentally
deleted or that have become damaged or corrupt.
The Quick-Start Wizard walks you through the
recovery process by asking a couple of simple
questions about what you want to recover and where
you want to recover it from and then initiating a quick
scan.
You can skip the wizard and go straight to the
application if you wish.
Advantages and
Disadvantages of Disk
Management
Software
Advantages
The main advantage of partitioning a hard
drive is that you the user can control
where on the disk that applications or files
are stored/installed.
Files pertaining to the operating system
and often-used drivers that are loaded at
boot time should be on the fastest part of a
drive the outer edge.
When a PC boots, several thousand
files are loaded into RAM.
Ifthose files are scattered all over the
drive, the computer will take a very
inconvenient amount of time to boot.
Disadvantages
The main disadvantage of partitioning is the
risk of making some partitions too small and
later getting the dreaded “low disk space”
warnings.
Also, over partitioning can turn a drive into a
confusing mess, so try to keep it simple by
limiting partitions to three or four unless you
have a very specific reason to create more.
1.is a disk usage and clean-up utility that
allows you to visualize how data is distributed
across a disk and what types of data or which
locations are hogging up most space.
Windistat
2. It allows you to repair boot sectors,
recover deleted partitions, fix damaged
partition tables, and recover deleted data, as
well as copy files from deleted/inaccessible
partitions.
Test Disk
3. is a lightweight yet powerful
defragmentation tool that allows you to defrag
whole drives or selected files/folders.
Defraggler
4. can measure the read/write performance of
your HDD/SSD, scan for errors, check the
health status and display drive information.
HD Tune
5. allows you to recover files from your
computer that were accidentally deleted or
that have become damaged or corrupt.
Recuva
References
Top 20 Free Disk Tools for SysAdmins -
GFI TechTalk
https://techtalk.gfi.com › top-20-free-disk-tools-
for-sysadmins
Management Software - ZapMeta.ws
Adph.zapmeta.ws/Management+Software
