Windows 10: Windows 10 is getting modern disk partition management tool

If you want to delete the old and create a new partition or extend space of a particular disk, you need to rely on Windows 10’s Disk Management tool. The simplest way to manage your disk partitions on Windows 10 is with the operating system’s built-in Disk Management, which was last updated in Windows 7.

The built-in Disk Management tool is still perfectly capable of creating new partitions for you, but some third-party apps have expanded feature sets and Microsoft’s solution is lagging behind. With third-party apps, you can easily extend the storage of a partition, create a new partition or delete existing partitions.

This could change soon as Microsoft has started working on a modern Disk Management Tool.

We have discovered references to ‘Modern_Disk_Management_Link’ in Windows 10 Build 19577+, suggesting that Microsoft is working on a new and modern way to manage disk partitions on Windows 10.

It’s possible that we might see a link within the Settings app to launch modern Disk Management Tool. However, it’s not yet clear if Microsoft has any plans to directly integrate the updated partition manager into the Settings app.

Microsoft has slowed down the efforts to replace the old configuration tools in Windows 10 with new configuration tools. Back in 2008, Microsoft started the transition when it was developing Windows 8 and it still hasn’t finished in Windows 10.

At the moment, some features are available only in Settings and some are available only in Control Panel, while other features can be accessed from both Settings and Control Panel.

Similarly, Windows 10 offers a new UI for pairing Bluetooth devices, but you still need to use the legacy tool to receive and transfer files over Bluetooth.

We don’t know when Microsoft plans to complete the transition from Control Panel to Settings, but the findings appear to suggest that a new Disk Management tool is in works.

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

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

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.