Understanding of Using Disk Management

           Disk Management is a snap-in to the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), administrators
quickly can manage standard, fault tolerant volume sets, and can confirm the health of each volume. Disk Management in Windows 8.1 provides the same features with which you may be familiar from previous versions, including:
• Simpler partition creation. When you right-click a volume, you can choose whether to create a basic, spanned, or striped partition directly from the menu.
• Disk conversion options. When you try to add more than four partitions to a basic disk, you are
prompted to convert the disk to dynamic or to the GPT partition style. You also can convert basicdisks to dynamic disks without incurring data loss. However, converting a dynamic disk to basic is not possible without first deleting all of the volumes.
• Extend and shrink partitions. You can extend and shrink partitions directly from the Windows
interface.

To open Disk Management, use this procedure:
1. In the Start screen, type disk. This will display the Everywhere search screen.
2. Type diskmgmt.msc in the search box, and then click diskmgmt in the results list.