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Windows Disk Management Console
Hi, Ken.
The "official" way is to click Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk Management. But this is a long click path and it makes me feel like I'm working through a keyhole, because of all the screen taken up by the wide frames of the Microsoft Management Console. My favorite way is just to click Start, type "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter. Either way, you'll need Administrator credentials because this tool lets you do some pretty serious things to your computer system. And, if you have several HDDs, you may have to wait a minute or two while Disk Management rounds up all the information to put on the screen. Then Maximize the window so that you can see all that Disk Management is trying to tell you, and widen at least the Status column so you can see some of the important information there, such as which is/are the System and Boot volumes. DM does not remember these settings; you'll have to do it again each time you start it. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Ken W" wrote in message ... How do I get to the Windows Disk Management Console? I need to make a change. |
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Windows Disk Management Console
Hi, Ken.
The "official" way is to click Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk Management. But this is a long click path and it makes me feel like I'm working through a keyhole, because of all the screen taken up by the wide frames of the Microsoft Management Console. My favorite way is just to click Start, type "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter. Either way, you'll need Administrator credentials because this tool lets you do some pretty serious things to your computer system. And, if you have several HDDs, you may have to wait a minute or two while Disk Management rounds up all the information to put on the screen. Then Maximize the window so that you can see all that Disk Management is trying to tell you, and widen at least the Status column so you can see some of the important information there, such as which is/are the System and Boot volumes. DM does not remember these settings; you'll have to do it again each time you start it. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Ken W" wrote in message ... How do I get to the Windows Disk Management Console? I need to make a change. |