{"id":394,"date":"2013-01-15T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:29:41","slug":"managing-disk-volumes-in-windows-8-using-disk-management-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/managing-disk-volumes-in-windows-8-using-disk-management-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Disk Volumes in Windows 8 Using Disk Management Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Disk Management is a traditional yet popular way to manage disks and partitions currently installed on your machine, either locally or remotely. It&rsquo;s a major part of Microsoft management console comes inbuilt with latest Windows such as Windows XP \/ Vista and Windows 8. Though, it has same set of features and options found in the older copy of Windows like Windows 7 except Windows 8 is ready for great sizes of single hard disk and ensures you for being capable of managing all the desired <strong>disk functions<\/strong> on large disks of up to 2.2 TB.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395 apply-gradient-on-post-images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diskmng-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"disk management in Windows 8\" width=\"342\" height=\"189\"><!--more--><strong>Disk Management lets you perform all the major disk functions, such as:<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>Extend\/Shrink Volume<\/li>\n<li>Change Drive Letters or assign a new desired drive name<\/li>\n<li>Format \/ Wipe to erase stuff inside the Storage Media<\/li>\n<li>Open\/Explore any volume<\/li>\n<li>Convert between MBR disk to GPT disk or GPT to MBR<\/li>\n<li>Convert basic disk to dynamic disk and vice versa<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Before its introduction, fdisk command was used to manage disks and partitions.<\/p><p><b>Open Disk Management in Windows 8<br>\n<\/b><\/p><p>You can easily reach at the Disk Management screen by going to,<\/p><p><strong><i>My Computer &gt; Right Click and Choose Manage &gt; Select Disk Management below the &lsquo;Storage&rsquo; option.<\/i> <\/strong><\/p><p>Alternatively, you can use the traditional way of accessing disk management utility which is by using command prompt.&nbsp; At the home or desktop screen, press &lsquo;Windows button + &lsquo;R&rsquo; key&rsquo; to open &lsquo;Run&rsquo; window, type &lsquo;diskmgmt.msc&rsquo; in the text box and hit OK.<\/p><p>At the disk management screen, you may able to see all the drives as well as partitions&nbsp; along with all its details like drive capacity, file system type, partitions, drive letters, free and used space and many more.<\/p><p><b>Format, Shrink\/Extend Volumes in Windows 8<br>\n<\/b><\/p><p>Once you reached at disk management, can select and perform multiple functions of your needs like formatting, extending\/shrinking any volume which is of two most widely used tasks of disk management.<\/p><p>Here&rsquo;s how you can do it on your own without taking helps from specialized hands:<\/p><ol start=\"1\">\n<li>At the top of the screen, you&rsquo;ll see all the partitions and drives attached to your computer.<\/li>\n<li>Right click on any drive, you want to format and choose &lsquo;format&rsquo;.<\/li>\n<li>Confirmation window will asks you to confirm the action, click yes.<\/li>\n<li>For resizing the partitions, choose &lsquo;extend volume&rsquo; to increase the size capacity or &lsquo;Shrink volume&rsquo; to divide partitions into other small size partition.<\/li>\n<li>There are various other options available after right clicking on any drive or partitions like &lsquo;Mark Partition Active&rsquo;, &lsquo;Change drive letters and paths&rsquo;, &lsquo;add mirror&rsquo; etc. and you could choose any of them to perform action of your choice.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p><strong>Windows 8<\/strong> would suppose to be the biggest launch of 2012 and you could expect even more advantages other than this great disk utility feature in coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Management is a traditional yet popular way to manage disks and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/managing-disk-volumes-in-windows-8-using-disk-management-utility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Managing Disk Volumes in Windows 8 Using Disk Management Utility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[858],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-disk-management-windows-8","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Managing Disk Volumes in Windows 8 Using Disk Management Utility | Stellar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn How to managing disk volumes in Windows 8 using disk management utility. 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