Overview of Disk Management Tools

           The tools that used to manage disks and the volumes or partitions that they contain on Windows 8.1:

• Disk Management. A GUI for managing disks
and volumes, both basic and dynamic, locally or on remote computers. After you select the remote computer that you want to manage, you can perform the same tasks that you typically perform when you use a local computer.

• DiskPart. A scriptable command-line tool with functionality that is similar to Disk Management, which also includes advanced features. You can create scripts to automate disk-related tasks, such as creating volumes or converting disks to dynamic. This tool always runs locally.

***Note: The Storage module cmdlets contained in the Windows PowerShell® 4.0 commandline
interface replace DiskPart.