Step 1. Click Start menu → input cmd in the search box → Enter. Step 2. Choose Disk Management on the left. So here will display several ways to open Disk Management in Windows PC systems. There’s no shortcut to Disk Management in the Windows start menu or on the desktop because it's not a program in the same sense as most other software. How to: open Disk Management in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, XP, or Vista ▪ Convert disk: If you add more than 4 partitions to a basic disk, it will prompt you to convert the disk to dynamic or GPT (GUID partition table) style. ▪ Simpler partition creation: You’re able to choose whether to create a basic, spanned, or striped partition directly. ▪ Extend and shrink volumes: Shrink a volume to get some unallocated space that can be used to create or extend another one. Anyway, some new features are added since the appearance of Windows 7. Many people must be familiar with the earlier version of Disk Management. You can initialize disks, create volumes, format volumes as FAT32 or NTFS file systems, etc with this tool. It enables you to view and manage hard disks that installed in the computer as well as the partitions associated with those drives. Disk Management is a Microsoft Windows utility first introduced in Windows XP as a replacement for the fdisk command.
