Windows 11 Inside Out

Chapter 8

Managing local and cloud storage

• Setting up hard disks and other storage devices

• Connecting OneDrive to your Windows PC

• Managing disk space

• Managing existing disks and volumes

• Working with virtual hard disks

The late, great comic George Carlin once observed, “All you need in life is a little place for your stuff.” Unless you use your computer exclusively as a game machine, learning to manage your digital “stuff”—your documents, programs, and communications—is probably the single most critical computing skill you need to acquire. The addition of cloud services adds extra flexibility as well as new organizational challenges, especially as you juggle multiple devices with different storage capacities.

In this chapter, we cover how ...