Chapter 12: Disk Management

Overview

Administrators can use the Disk Management snap-in or the new DiskPart command-line tool to manage disks and volumes in Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Both tools support dynamic disks and volumes, which were introduced in Microsoft Windows 2000. Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition also introduces a new partition style, giving administrators additional choices for configuring disk storage.

Related Information

• For more information about the NTFS file system and the file allocation table file systems FAT and FAT32, see File Systems in this book.

• For more information about troubleshooting problems related to disks and using Chkdsk and Disk Defragmenter, see Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems in this book.

• For more information about the startup process and Boot.ini, see Troubleshooting Startup in this book.