Configuring disks, volumes, and filesystem options using Disk Management and Windows PowerShell

I guess you have noticed what happens to the disk during the Windows 10 installation process? Disk partitioning and formatting are two of the processes that are required to install Windows 10. If these can be regarded as Disk Management activities at the pre-installation phase of Windows 10, then there are also disk management activities at the post-installation phase. Some of these post-installation disk management activities include initializing disks, creating volumes, formatting volumes, moving disks between computers, changing disks between basic and dynamic types, and changing the disk's partition scheme. So, in the following sections, you will become familiar with Disk Management and Windows PowerShell as two old tools that continue to be available in Windows 10, too, for managing disks.

Managing storage with Disk Management

As you know, Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) is a snap-in of theMicrosoft...