What is Disk Management ?

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Disk Management is a system utility in Windows that was first introduced in Windows XP as a replacement for the fdisk command. It allows you to perform advanced storage tasks & It is an extension to Microsoft Management Console that allows complete management of disk based hardware detected by Windows.


What is the Use of Disk Management ?

It is used to manage the drives installed on a computer, such as optical drives, hard drives (internal and external) & flash drives. It can be used to partition and format drives, assign drive letters, and more.

Users can view and manage the drives installed on their computer through this and the partitions associated with those drives.

What is Disk Management Availability?

It is available in most versions of Microsoft Windows (Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000).

How to Open Windows Disk Management ?

One of the simple way to access Disk Management is through the Computer Management utility, which you can access from Administrative Tools in Control Panel.

  • Click Start and go to the Run option. You can also press Windows Key + R to open the Run option.

  • Type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter.

  • In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the Storage section.



    Or 

  • Open Control Panel.

  • Click Performance and Maintenance in Category View or Double click Management in Classic View, & then click Management.

How to Use Disk Management?

It has two main sections - top and bottom:

Top Section - The top section contains a list of all partitions, formatted or not, that are recognized by Windows.

Bottom Section - The bottom section provides a graphical representation of the physical drives installed in the computer.

Performing certain actions on drives or partitions makes them available or unavailable to Windows and sets them up for use by Windows in certain ways.

These are some general things you can do in Disk Management:

  • Format a drive

  • Partition a drive

  • Change a drive letter

  • Expand a partition

  • Shrink a partition

  • Delete a partition

  • Change the file system of a drive

More Information

The disk management tool has a graphical interface like a normal program and is functionally similar to the diskpart command line utility that replaced an earlier utility called fdisk.

You can also use Disk Management to check free disk 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 disks and the remaining free space, increased in units (ie, MB and GB). as well as percentage.

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