How to manage disk in Win8 system?

Disk management is a task in the computer that can be delivered to users in the form of applications. The main functions of disk management are troubleshooting programs and disk defragmenters and defragmenters. Nowadays, many users do not know how to use disk management. This article will take Win8 system as an example to introduce the method of disk management in Windows system.

1. Find and select the “Computer” icon on the system desktop, as shown in the figure;

2. Then click the right mouse button and select the “Manage & rdquo; option, as shown in the figure.

3, in the pop-up "Computer Management" window, click the "Disk Management" option in the left pane, you can see all the disks of the current computer in the right pane , as shown in the figure;

4, the disk management window is divided into two parts, the implementation of the same function. The upper window is to display the disk in the computer as a list, while the lower window is displayed in hard disk as a unit, as shown in the figure;

5, select the disk you want to manage, click the mouse Right click, you can have the corresponding operation, as shown;

Compressed volume

1, compressed volume, meaning to free up the extra space of a disk. At present, the hard disks of the computer are relatively large, such as 500G, 1TB, etc., but many computers are only divided into two disks for the user, that is, one system C disk and another D disk. If you think that the two disks are inconvenient to use, you can use this method if you want to free up the remaining space of the D drive. This method is directly divided by the system's own tools, so it will not affect the original data on the disk.

2. For example, here I want to separate my D disk out of 100M space, select D disk, click Right click and select the "Compress Volume" option as shown;

Note: Compressed volumes are only available for disks partitioned with NTFS.

3, then in the compression window, enter the disk space you want to free, in MB. Enter 100 here as an example, click the "compress" button, as shown;

4. Then you can see that there is 100MB of free disk space behind the original D disk, as shown in the figure. ;

Expanding Volumes

1. Expanding a volume means adding the free space on the disk. Before I vacated the D disk out of 100M space, now I will add it. Select the D drive and click the right mouse button, select the "Extended volume" option as shown;

2. Next click on "Next" to continue, as shown;

3, then the 100M free disk space behind the D drive will be automatically selected, click <; next & rdquo; continue, as shown;

4, then the system prompts that the disk has been completed To expand, click on the "Complete" button as shown;

5. Finally, return to the disk management and find that the 100 M space behind the D disk has been expanded and merged into the D disk. As shown in the figure;

New Simple Volume

1. Create a new simple volume, which can be thought of as a new disk function, such as creating a disk in free space. In Disk Management, find unallocated or available disk space as shown;

2. Select and click the right mouse button and select the “New Simple Volume” option as shown;

3, then click & ldquo; next & rdquo; continue, as shown;

4, then you can choose to create a simple volume size, here keep the default space, click &ldquo Next, continue, as shown;

5, then you can assign a new disk number to this simple volume, you can also choose to install the NTFS folder, you can also choose not to assign the disk number . Here, for example, to assign a disk number, click “Continue” to continue, as shown in the figure;

6. Next, whether to format the disk file system, define the allocation unit size, and the disk name ( Volume label), and whether you want to perform a quick format. Here all keep the default settings, click “ next & rdquo; continue, as shown;

7, finally click the "Complete" button, wait for the system to complete the operation, as shown;

Summary

Of course, the disk management tools are very powerful, far more than these features. You can also activate the system boot partition, format the disk, delete the disk, and so on in disk management.

Everyone knows that there are important files in the disk, so be careful when operating the disk, because if the operation is wrong, it is likely to cause system crash or disk data loss.