Windows 7 Disk Management

What does Windows 7 Disk Management do? As its name showing,

Disk Management is a manger that provides solution for disk space
management. As a disk management tool, Windows 7 Disk
Management has the basic functions including mark partition as
active, change drive letter and paths, format volume and delete
volume. You can also check the Properties of each partition on your
computer under Disk Management on Win7. In addition to those
basic functions, Windows 7 Disk Management has two new features
compared to Windows XP, which are extend volume and shrink
volume.
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 3 Ways to Access Windows 7 Disk
Management
If you want to perform any task under Disk Management in Windows
7, you must know how to access it. Here are 3 common methods to
access Disk Management tool in Windows 7

Method1. Right click "Computer" icon on Windows 7 desktop > click

"Manage" > click "Disk Management"

This method is usually easy to handle, so most Windows 7 users

would like to access Disk Management with this method.
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 Method2: Click "Start" button on taskbar of Windows 7 > click
"Control Panel" > "click "System and Security" > "click
"Administrative Tools" > double click the "Computer Management" >
click "Disk Management"
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 Method3: Click "Start" button on the Windows 7 taskbar and click
"Run" option (you can also press Win + R to open Run box) > type
"diskmgmt.msc" in the box and then press "Enter" button to open
disk management.

Features of Disk Management in Win7

Based on its name, it is easy to understand that you can format
partition, delete partition, change drive letter and paths, extend
partition and shrink partition after accessing Disk Management in
Win 7. Based on those basic features, you can resolve some related
problem occurred on Windows 7. Here are some related possible
issues that you can resolve with Windows 7 Disk Management:
1. Create a new partition with Disk Management in Windows 7

During the usage of your computer, you may want to create a new
partition sometimes. On Windows 7, you do not need to repartition
hard drive in order to create a new partition. You just need to follow
the guide below to create new partition on Windows 7:

Step1. Right click a partition under Disk Management on Windows 7

and click "Shrink Volume" option.
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 Step2. Enter the amount of space you want to shrink and then click
"Shrink" button so that you can get some unallocated space.

Step3. Right click the unallocated volume and click "New Simple
Volume"
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 Step4. Follow the wizard to format the unallocated space and assign
a drive letter to this volume, after which you can create a new
partition.

2. Fix low disk space problem on Windows 7 with Disk

Management

Another feature is that you can fix low disk space problem on
Windows 7 with Disk Management. When a partition, especially
system partition is running out of disk space, Windows 7 will report
low disk space warning to ask you to free up disk space. If you
encounter the low disk space issue on Windows 7, you can rely on
the shrink volume and extend volume functions on Disk Management
to resolve this problem on Windows 7.

First of all, you can refer to step1 and step2 mentioned above to get
some unallocated space in Disk Management on Win7. Then, you can
right click the partition which shows before the unallocated space
and then click "Extend Volume" to add the unallocated space to the
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 selected partition.

Tip: You can only extend the partition which is contiguous to the
unallocated space on Windows 7 Disk Management.

Free Partition Software Similar to Windows 7

Disk Management
If you have ever run Windows 7 Disk Management to perform some
tasks to resolve problem, you may find that it sometimes has
limitations. In this situation, you can run free partition software which
works similarly to Disk Management but has no limitation to format
partition, delete partition, shrink partition, extend partition, move
partition and do more on Windows 7.

Download IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free Edition

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