Windows 10: Hands-on with Windows 10’s new modern solution to manage disks

With each Windows 10 feature update, Microsoft has added new features, but it hasn’t spent much time going back and revamping or fix the old bits.

For example, the oldest features are currently accessible via the individual Control Panel applets in Windows 7-era dialog boxes, and new features are available in the Settings. In fact, there are still some places in the Settings menu where changing advanced settings requires you to open Control Panel applets.

Every year, Microsoft has taken serious strides toward modernizing old parts of the operating system. In the next two updates, more settings are being moved from Control Panel into the Settings app.

An area that has been particularly ignored lately is the popular Disk Management tool, as it’s home to a lot of vintage interface and it is one of the most powerful tools in Windows 10.

With the next Windows 10 update, Microsoft says it will introduce one important fresh feature: a new disk management area within the Settings panel.

The new disk management tool is called “Manage Disks and Volumes screen” and it’s available under the Storage section of Settings > System > Storage.



This new feature offers modern experience and it’s built from the ground up with accessibility in mind.

You can use Windows 10’s modern disk management utility to view basic information of your disks. A more detailed and informative graphical representation is currently missing, but it could be added in a future update.



The tool also allows you to create and format volumes. In addition, you can assign drive letters and create/format volumes.

The disk manager also features better integration with other features like Storage Spaces and Storage Sense, compared to the legacy Disk Management tool.

While modernization is a step in the right direction, this modern alternative is currently sparse looking in terms of the design and interface with a lot of white space on the right side.



This has attracted negative comments from testers, but Microsoft told users that the feature is in the early stage of development and it’ll eventually get better.

“This is just the first piece of work for this feature and will take time to refine it. Insiders want early versions of features, this is that,” Microsoft said.

Fortunately, Microsoft has confirmed that there are no plans to retire the existing Disk Management MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in. The legacy tool will be available in the Control Panel for those who need it.

My opinion: While I like modernization, I wish Microsoft would do something about Settings UI design, which is the absolute ocean of useless whitespace, especially on a 16:9 large screen monitor.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.

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Disk Management

Hi Keith,

Thanks for providing the detail that was requested previously. Since the disk management screen that you saw is showing greyed out options, we suggest that you follow the steps below to change the partition type of your internal drive:

• Open Disk Management then right click the partition on the disk you want to covert and select Delete Volume.
• Once you complete the process you will see the whole disk shown as two separate unallocated spaces. Right-click the disk and select Convert to GPT disk.

After the conversion, you will be able to use the whole disk and then you can create new separate partitions.

We look forward to your response to our queries.

 

Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?

 

Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of

or...

This will do it for you

Step 1: Download this zip file (contains dmDskmgr-vd.mmc)

dmDskmgr-vd.zip
Step 2: Double click dmDskmgr-vd.zip to open the compressed folder
Double click dmDskmgr-vd.mmc to launch the custom Disk Management console

Press Alt+PrtScn to grab a snapshot of just the Disk Management window
Open Paint and Ctrl+V to paste it, then save the image
Attach the image to a new post.