Disk Management

Muhammad Usman Saeed (1045)

Subject:
System Administration
Presented to:
Miss. Sobia
Contents

Disk Management

Access to Disk Management

How to Use Disk Management

Steps for Partition

Shrink a Partition

Delete a Partition

Extend Partition
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.

How To Access Disk Management?

There are several method to access the Disk Management

Method 1 - Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools. D

ouble click Computer Management and then click Disk Mana
gement in the left hand column.

Method 2 - Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc in the

Open: line and click OK. The Disk Management nap-in will
open.
How To Access Disk Management?

One of the most fastest

way to open DM

Method 3 - Right Click

on the My Computer and
then click Manage
Opening D.M From CLI

Type the following command in the Run Command by the clicking of

Window + R Key.
diskmgmt.msc and hit enter…
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 install
ed in the computer.

The top section of Disk Management contains a list

of all the partitions, formatted or not, that Windows

recognizes.
How To Use Disk Management
How To Use Disk Management

Here are some common things that you can do in Disk

Management:
•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

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.
Steps For Partition
Steps For Partition
Steps For Partition

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:
Steps For Partition

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:
•FAT32
•NTFS
Steps For Partition
Steps For Partition

Click Next,
confirm your
options, and
then click
Finish.
Steps For Partition

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

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

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

Click Shrink
Steps For Deleting and Extend

Once you have unallocated space, you can use that

space to create a new partition by repeating above
partition steps.
And also you can Extend your partition from two or
three partition in one large partition you have to
delete your drives (after saving your data to an other
drive) and the right click on the deleted partitions and
then click on the Extend
Basic Disk

•A physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or

logical drives.
• Basic disks can be accessed by all versions of Windows, MS-DOS, and
Windows NT.
• Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary
partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives.
Basic Disk

Primary Partition:
•A primary partition can be used to boot an Operating System. Your
Windows OS is installed on a primary partition.
•A primary partition contains one file system.
•In DOS and all early versions of Microsoft Windows systems, Microsoft
required what it called the system partition to be the first partition.
•All Windows operating systems from Windows 95 onwards can be located
on (almost) any partition, but the boot files (io.sys, bootmgr, ntldr, etc.) must
reside on a primary partition.
•A PC's BIOS (see Boot sequence on standard PC) may also impose
specific requirements as to which partition must contain the primary OS.
Basic Disk

Extended Partition:
•An extended partition is used to hold logical drives.

•Logical drives – logical drives hold files unrelated to the Operating

System – pretty much everything else on your computer – data, audio
, video, etc.
•DOS/Windows systems may then assign a unique drive letter to
each logical partition.
Dynamic Disk

•Use both MBR or GPT partitioning scheme.

•All volumes are dynamic volumes.
•Ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spann
ed and striped volumes), and the ability to create fault tol
erant
volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes).
• Dynamic disk is divided in following volumes :
•Simple Volume
•Spanned Volume
•Stripped Volume
•Mirror Volume
•RAID-5 Volume
Dynamic Disk

Simple Volume:
•Simple volume equals to primary partition and users can create lots of
simple volumes on one dynamic disk, not limited to 4.
•A simple volume can be extended to unallocated space on the same disk
but keeps simple. However, if users extend it to unallocated space on other
disk, it will become a spanned volume.
Dynamic Disk

Spanned Volume:
•Use free space from multiple disks in the system.
•Spanned volumes combine areas of unallocated space from multiple disks
into one logical volume. The areas of unallocated space can be different
sizes.
Dynamic Disk

Stripped Volume:

•That stripe data across multiple disks in the system.

•Striped volume is created by unallocated space with the same size on 2 or

more dynamic disks.

•When users store data to a striped volume, the very data will be divided to
multiple parts and saved to all portions of striped volume at the same time,
which can enhance data storage speed.

•Nevertheless, this kind of volume does not have the ability to create

fault-tolerant volumes.
Dynamic Disk

Mirror Volume:
•That mirror data from one disk to another.
•Mirrored volume is created by 2 unallocated spaces with the same size. It o
ffers fault-tolerance by imaging data on the volume. If one of disks failed, dat
a on the failed disk will be unavailable, but Windows can run normally by rea
ding data on the other disk.
Dynamic Disk

RADI-5:
•A RAID-5 volume is a fault-tolerant volume that stripes data and parity acro
ss three or more disks.
•Parity is a calculated value that is used to reconstruct data if one disk fails.
When a disk fails, Windows Server 2003 continues to operate by recreating t
he data that was on the failed disk from the remaining data and parity.
MBR and GPT

•MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID

Partition Table) are two different ways of storing the
partitioning information on a drive. This information
includes:
• where partitions start and begin
so your operating system knows which sectors belong
to each partition and which partition is bootable. This
is why you have to choose MBR or GPT before
creating partitions on a drive.
Limitations of MBR & GPT
MBR GPT

Full Name Master Boot Record GUID Partition Table

Boot Loader ntldr & bootmgr ntldr & bootmgr

Partitions 4 Depends of FS

Size 2TB Unlimited

Security No Yes

Booting Data At one place Different Locations