Advantages of Disk Managementĭisk Management comes pre-loaded on Windows 10 machines.
The pre-installed tool is also handy for formatting drives and setting up new ones thanks to its Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table partitioning structure. The tool enables users of Microsoft's desktop operating system to view and manage the disk drives installed in their machines - including hard disk drives, optical disk drives and flash drives - and to perform advanced storage tasks.įor example, the utility can be used for operations such as creating, extending and deleting drive partitions, which can be useful for things such as running two operating systems from one drive.
Disk Management is a built-in tool that first introduced in Windows XP as a replacement for the fdisk function in Command Prompt.
