Chapter 5. Manipulating Disks
This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:
• Manipulating and viewing disks with diskpart
• Defragmenting volumes with defrag
• Converting to NTFS with convert
• Managing the file system with fsutil
Manipulating and Viewing Disks with diskpart
The diskpart command is a shell command you can access from the command line. After you enter diskpart, the DISKPART> prompt appears and you can enter diskpart commands from there.
The diskpart command requires elevated permissions. If you try to launch it from a normal command prompt, you’ll be prompted by User Account Control to continue. If you click Yes, another command prompt window will open with elevated permissions.
You can use the ...
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