Questions tagged [disk-management]

The Windows disk partitioning and management utility; can be used to assign drive letters and create, delete, format, and resize partitions.

Disk Management is the Windows disk partitioning and management utility, implemented as an MMC snap-in. Disk Management can be used to:

  • create, delete, format, and resize partitions (volumes)
  • assign drive letters to volumes
  • manipulate dynamic volumes, which can span multiple physical disks (in select editions of Windows only)
  • manage mounted VHD and VHDX disk images (since Windows 8)

More detailed usage information on Disk Management can be found in Microsoft documentation.

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How to delete a partition on a USB drive?

I have a USB drive that I accidentally partitioned when trying to put Ubuntu on it. It's a 16 GB Kingston flash drive but it is now split to two partitions, 7.30 GB each. How do I combine the two partitions into one? I have tried Disk Management in…
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Unable to format disk: 'The system cannot find the file specified'

I have a USB flash drive, which I may have mucked up, so I used DISKPART's CLEAN to clean it up. I created a simple volume, and tried to format it. (This is all using Windows' disk management.) I was told The system cannot find the file…
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How can I increase my shrink space in disk management?

I have a 900GB HDD, but for some reason it will only allow me to shrink like 2500MB of it. In the past, I could shrink to my desired size, but for some reason it is giving me a problem now. I have tried defragging it with PerfectDisk, but I actually…
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How to limit Drive Letters Windows assigns to new removable USB drives

Currently Windows (all of the versions) assigns the first available letter to the next removable media you insert into your USB drive. Is there a way to go around this to make Windows assign only letters that are in the interval you want (for…
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How to prepare SSD drives for shrinking partitions in Windows?

I was trying to shrink a partition (Windows 10). For traditional hard drives, I can use the Optimize Tool to defragment the hard drive to free up disk sectors towards the end of the HD and shrink the volume as much as possible. However, I read that…
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Disk Management and Windows Explorer show different allocted sizes

I shrinked 50GB from my main bootcamp NTFS partition. After a reboot my windows explorer now shows that drive C's total size is 90GB, but the Disk Management tool in windows (and EaseUS Partition Manager) still shows 140GB (there is no unnalocated…
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Converting dynamic to basic disk

I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported. Is there a way to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing…
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Disk Management problem; " The service cannot be started,"

I am trying to shrink a volume on Windows 7 Professional using Disk Management but get the following error: Virtual Disk Manager The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with…
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New external SSD acting up, no eject option

I just got myself an ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure USB-C Adapter and put an unused NVMe 1.3 into it (512GB). When I tried to eject it in the file explorer, there was no eject option, though the format option was there. Checking the tray, I did find…
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Partition disappeared after shrinking

I am using Windows 10 on an old Pentium Laptop. It had 4 partitions: C,D,E (System Reserved) and F I wanted to created unallocated space for CentOS. I used Windows 10 Disk Management to shrink C: and create unallocated space for CentOS. I…
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Does "Offline" in Disk Management actually turn off (spin down) the disk?

There is "Offline" menu in Disk Management. If I click that, the disk becomes offline and not accessible. My question is that, does "offline" actually turn off (spin down) the disk for good (until the system reboots)? Or the physical disk is still…
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Cannot format 8GB USB Drive Partition

So, I have a 8GB USB thumbrive I am trying to format so I can use all 8 (or 7.27 to be exact) GB in a single partition. The drive already has a 943 MB partition, which I figured I could extend to use the full 7.27 GB but this does not seem to be…
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Extend unallocated space to my `C:` drive?

I am using a machine with Windows 10. After shrinking the size of the partition D: using Disk Management, I got 215.78GB Unallocated. Now, I want to Extend the Volume of the partition C: with the Unallocated space and for that, I right-clicked and…
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Can't format USB disk because volume is offline

I have a USB disk that has gotten bollixed up and for the life of me, I can not reformat it and get back to square one. I attempted to create an Acronis Survival Kit using a WD Elements 2TB USB disk. Acronis was reformatting the disk to make it…
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What do hashmarks for a partition shown in diskmgmt.msc mean?

What does it mean that a partition has hash marks on it for Windows 10?
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