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Windows Disk Management

Storage needs for computers have changed significantly over time. You could feed the data of hundreds of computers from just 10 years ago into a single computer today and still not fill its hard disk. Part of the reason is that today's data is much different than that of 10 years ago. It includes multimedia files, 20- plus megapixel images, extended attributes, complex formulas, and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) formatting. The result is that the size of a single file can be hundreds of megabytes (MB) or even several gigabytes (GB). So, although storage space has grown, the demand for storage space has increased along with it.

In this tutorial:

  1. Managing Disks and Volumes
  2. Basic and Dynamic Disks
  3. Working with Basic Disks
  4. Converting Basic Disks to Dynamic
  5. Working with Dynamic Disks
  6. Troubleshooting Disk Problems
  7. Managing File System Fragmentation
  8. The Defrag.exe Command-Line Tool
  9. RAID Volumes
  10. Creating a RAID-0 Volume
  11. Creating a Spanned Volume
  12. Creating a RAID-5 Volume
  13. Using DiskPart to Create Striped, Mirrored, and RAID-5 Volumes
  14. Managing and Troubleshooting RAID Volumes
  15. Configuring Removable Drive Policies