{"id":6686,"date":"2016-04-24T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2016-04-24T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:49:44","slug":"open-disk-management-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-disk-management-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Open Disk Management in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disk Management is the built-in partition tool that allows you to create, delete, format, extend or shrink partitions. In this article we’ll show you 6 simple ways to open Disk Management in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

\"disk-management\"<\/p>\n

Method 1: Open Disk Management from WinX Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu, or right-click on the Start<\/strong> button to reveal the WinX menu.<\/li>\n
  2. From there you can click Disk Management<\/strong> to open it.\n

    \"quick-access-menu\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Open Disk Management via Run<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box.<\/li>\n
    2. Type diskmgmt.msc<\/strong> and press Enter. This will launch Disk Management.\n

      \"diskmgmt-via-run\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 3: Open Disk Management in Computer Management<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Right-click the This PC<\/strong> icon on your desktop and then select Manage<\/strong> from the context menu.\n

        \"manage-pc\"<\/p>\n

        If the This PC<\/strong> icon is not shown, open File Explorer and right-click This PC<\/strong> in the left navigation panel, then select Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n

      2. In the left pane of Computer Management, expand Storage<\/strong> and then click Disk Management<\/strong> to open Windows Disk Management window.\n

        \"disk-management\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Method 4: Open Disk Management from Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu, and then click Command Prompt (Admin)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
        2. Type diskmgmt<\/strong> and press Enter. Disk Management will launch quickly.\n

          \"diskmgmt-via-cmd\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Method 5: Open Disk Management via Search<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Click the Cortana search box from the taskbar. If the search box is hidden, press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu, then click on Search<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
          2. Type partition<\/strong> in the Search box. Once the search results are shown, click on Create and format hard disk partitions<\/strong>.\n

            \"cortana-search\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Method 6: Open Disk Management from Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            1. Click on the Start<\/strong> button, and then select Settings<\/strong> from the Start menu.<\/li>\n
            2. From the Settings window, click the Search box in the upper right corner and type partition<\/strong>.\n

              \"settings\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

            3. Once the search results start to show, click “Create and format hard disk partitions<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Disk Management is the built-in partition tool that allows you to create, delete, format, extend or shrink partitions. In this article we’ll show you 6 simple ways to open Disk Management in Windows 10. Method 1: Open Disk Management from WinX Menu Press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu, or right-click […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894],"tags":[2668,2667,2669],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-access-disk-management-in-windows-10","tag-open-disk-management","tag-windows-10-disk-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}