Disk Setup Management & Disk Management Tools.

Disk Management is a useful built-in Windows 7 partition manager that makes hard disk partitioning quick and simple. Windows 7 Disk Management includes:

·     A built-in partition manager .

·     Graphical user interface

·     Ability to create new disk partitions within Windows 7

·     Ability to shrink existing disk partitions

With Disk Management, you can initialize disks, create volumes, format volumes with file systems FAT, exFAT,

FAT32 or NTFS. You can also extend a disk, reduce a disk, check if a disk is healthy or unhealthy, create partitions, delete partitions, or change a drive letter.

To access Disk management, follow these steps:

1. Right-click Computer and click Manage.

2. From the left pane click Disk Management.

Windows 7 and the Graphical Partition Manager

Windows 7 Disk Management features a graphical user interface. The Disk Management console lists each volume in alphabetical order. Each hard disk is then broken down into: Type, File System, Status, Capacity, and Free Space. In the second horizontal column, Each logical drive is labeled by its letter and given a color. Right-clicking on each drive opens a menu where users can extend volumes, shrink volumes or create new logical drive

Creating New partition on Windows 7:

1.  On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-click the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume, and click Next.
4. Select the size for the new volume or partition in MB.
5. Assign the drive letter to the new partition.
6. Format the partition with appropriate filesystem and select the check box Perform a Quick Format. To enable compression, select the checkbox Enable File and Folder compression.
7. Click Finish.

Follow these steps to resize an existing partition in your current hard disk drive to create a new partition:

1. On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-click on the partition, which you want to resize. This would present you with drive capacity information as well as the option to enter an amount you'd like to “shrink” your partition by then click Shrink.
4. You can now see unallocated space on your hard drive in the capacity you specified, situated just after your now resized original partition.
5. Right-Click the unallocated volume, and select New Simple Volume, assign it a drive letter, quick format the volume using the NTFS file system and default allocation unit size.

Extending a Partition:

1. On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-Click the partition that you want to extend and select Extend Volume.
4. Click Next, and this would present you with drive capacity information as well as the option to enter an amount you'd like to extend your partition by. Click Next.
5. Click Finish.

Deleting a partition:

1. On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-Click the partition that you want to delete and select Delete Volume.
4. Click Yes to continue the deletion process.
5. Click Yes to delete the partition.

Change Drive Letter

1. On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-click on a partition and select "Change drive letters and paths.

4. The current drive letter will display. The Add button typically allows the partition to be placed inside an existing NTFS folder.
5. Click Change to assign a new drive letter.

Windows 7 will disallow any changes if the partition is currently used as a system, boot, or page file drive.

Tasks that can be performed with the Properties tab:

1. On Windows 7, click start, right click My Computer, and click Manage.
2. Click Disk Management from the left pane. You can now view the current partitioning scheme on you system.
3. Right-click a partition and select Properties.
4. With Security tab, permissions for various groups of users can be assigned or changed on the partition.
5. General tab presents you with options to enable compression and indexing on the partition. It also allows you to clean the disk using Disk Cleanup.
6. Hardware tab provides you to manage the hardware properties.
7. You can enable File and Folder sharing with the Sharing Tab.
8. With Quota tab, you can enable Quota services on the partition. To enable quota select the checkbox Enable Quota Management. Set the limits for quota and you can also select quota logging options for this volume.
9. To make any changes in the default partition properties click Apply and then click OK.

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