To use disk management, open it first and click on the drive on which you want to perform any action.
All below actions can be performed using disk management.
- Partition a drive
- Initialize a new drive
- Change drive letter
- Extend disk volume
- Shrink disk volume
- Free up space on disk
- Troubleshoot Drive problems using Disk Management
- disks that are missing or not initialized,
- dynamic disks that are unreadable,
- dynamic disks that are foreign,
- dynamic disks that are online (errors),
- dynamic disks that are offline or missing,
- dynamic volumes that are Failed,
- dynamic volumes that are Unknown,
- dynamic volumes that are Data Incomplete,
- dynamic volumes that are Healthy (At Risk), and
- dynamic volumes that cannot be managed.