Windows disk management exe

Disk Management is a built-in drive management tool in Windows. You can use it to partition a hard drive, format a hard drive, or change a hard drive letter.

To open Disk Management, you can use one of the two ways below. Type diskmgmt. Scroll down the apps list to find the folder Windows Administrative Tools then expand it. Note: Windows 10 version and above builds have a new Start menu which have removed All apps option. If you have lower build than , you will see All apps in the Start menu see below image. Then you need to click All apps then Windows Administrative Tools.

Click on Computer Management. Then the Computer Management window will pop up. Do you know why you fail to extend Windows 10 partition? In fact, the reason is very simple, and here let's look at three limitations of Disk Management. From the above picture, you know C drive is not allowed to be extended because there is no unallocated space following it. In addition, it is possible that you fail to shrink a volume. Here we want to recommend a piece of third-party disk management software — MiniTool Partition Wizard.

This free disk manager can manage hard drive in Windows 10 as well as a partition. Free Download. Case 1: when there is no unallocated space or the unallocated space is not contiguous. Step 1: Launch this free Windows 10 hard drive manager, then go to the main interface. Click the target partition take C as an example , and select Extend Partition in the action pane. Step 2: Next please take some free disk space from other partitions on the same disk.

By moving the handle, you can decide how much free space you want to take. Case 2: when there is unallocated space adjacent to the target partition with FAT32 file system. Step 1: Run this professional Windows 10 hard drive manager to its main interface. Step 2: Then move the black arrow to occupy the unallocated space. Click OK to continue. At last, click Apply to execute this operation. In addition to repartitioning a hard drive with Windows 10 Disk Management, perhaps you want to use this free utility to do the disk type conversion between MBR and GPT.

However, Windows Disk Management requires you to delete all volumes and then do the conversions. To avoid data loss, you should adopt a professional disk manager Windows Free Download Buy Now. Step 1: Here take a data disk as an example. Run this disk manager Windows The former supports a file larger than 4GB. Nevertheless, there are two limitations with disk utility of Windows During the process of conversion, the situation of data loss won't appear.

Right-click on the partition you need to extend e. D Drive and choose Merge Partitions. Tick the checkbox before the unallocated space and then click OK. Now you can preview the unallocated space that has been added into C drive. To save the change, please click Apply button at the top left corner.

The new generated partition will be automatically set as logical partition. Open this software, right-click a partition that has enough space here is D partition , and then choose Allocate Free Space.

Enter the size of free space you would like to add into another partition here is C drive , and then click OK. Now you can preview that some free space has been allocated to C drive from D partition. Click Apply to save the changes. Then you will extend partition C. Besides, it is more freely for you to any operation without losing any data. How to open Disk Management in Windows 10?