Disk management is a utility in various operating systems that allows users to create, delete, format partitions, and manage drive letters. It can be accessed through several methods, including the control panel and command prompt. The tool provides a graphical representation of drives and enables actions like partitioning and formatting to organize hard drive space effectively.

1. B Y : M A S
Disk Management

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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:

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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:

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

16. 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.

18. 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:

19. 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:

21. Click Next, confirm your options,
and then click Finish.

22. The Windows 7 Disk Management
tool will now show the space
configured as a new partition.

23. 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:

24. In Disk Management, right-click
the volume that you want to
shrink, and then click Shrink
Volume.

25. In the field provided in the Shrink
dialog box, enter the amount of
space by which to shrink the disk.

26. Click Shrink.

27. Once you have unallocated space,
you can use that space to create a
new partition by repeating above
partition steps.