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Windows 7 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686
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Windows 7 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686

by Darril Gibson
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
7h 59m
English
Pearson IT Certification
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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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