Disk Management Utility that Manages the Operations of Hard Drives

Disk Management is a utility firstly introduced with Windows XP to manage the complete hard disk volume occupied in different partitions. You can perform various operations on hard drive by using Disk Management utility like create volume, initialize disk and simply you can format the disk in any format like FAT, FAT32 or NTFS file system. This utility enables you to perform disk operations without restarting the computer and the effect will be reflect immediately. The Disk Management Utility is introduced to over come the difficulty of fdisk Command which is used to create and delete partitions on the hard disk in earlier version of MS-DOS and Windows.

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Disk Management utility is a built in utility in windows xp, vista, windows 7, windows 8 and windows 10, it can be used to create delete and format the disk partitions. Now to know how to access this utility in different versions of windows and how to easily manage the windows hard drive.

Steps to Access Disk Management in Windows XP

If you are using windows xp then you can access the built in Disk Management Utility, follow the steps given below.

1. Go to Start, navigate to My Computer and click on it.
2. Click on Manage option.
3. Hit on Disk Management then a window will appear as shown below.
   

Steps to Access the Disk Management Utility in Windows 7 & Windows Vista

If you are using windows vista or windows 7 then you can access this utility by following instructions given below.

1. Go to My Computer and right-click on it and hit on Manage from opened list.
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2. As you click on Disk Management a computer management window will be appear with the list of hard drives in the systems.
   

Steps to Access the Disk Management Utility in Windows 8

If you are using Window 8 then you can find this utility from start menu, follow the steps given below.

1. Go to left corner of desktop window find the start as shown below.
   
2. Right-click on the start and hit on the Disk Management from the opened list.
   
3. A new window will appear with all partition details of the hard drive.
   

Steps to Access Disk Management Utility in Windows 10

To know how to access disk management utility perform the steps given below.

1. Go to the left bottom of the Window and right click on it.
   
2. As you right-click a list will appear, now hit on the Disk Management form the list.
   
3. Now the Disk Management Window will appear as shown below, where you can view entire disk partision operation like layout, type, file system, status, capacity etc.
   

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In this article I tried to put all information about how to access disk management utility in all versions of widows. I hope this effort will help you to manage the hard drive of the system and view the details of the disk like free space, capacity, percentage free space, file system and layout etc.