command and then clicking on the icon for "command
prompt" or a Windows PowerShell window, which you can get by hitting
Ctrl-Esc and then selecting Windows PowerShell.
When the window opens, type diskpart. You may see a prompt
asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to
this computer?" Beneath it you will see the following:
| Program name: | DiskPart |
| Verified publisher: | Microsoft Windows |
Click on "Yes", which will result in a diskpart window opening. On systems where you are not logged into an administrator account when you attempt to run the diskpart utility, you may be prompted to provide login credentials for an account in the administrators group.
To view details on the drives connected to the system, you first
have to select a disk drive in diskpart with select disk
n where n is the disk drive number; the first
drive is drive zero. You can then issue the command detail disk
to see details on the disk drive.
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: BATMAN
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
ST31000528AS
Disk ID: F7B05235
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : Yes
Pagefile Disk : Yes
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : Yes
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 1 RECOVERY NTFS Partition 19 GB Healthy System
Volume 2 D OS NTFS Partition 179 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 732 GB Healthy Boot
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
ST6000DX000-1H217Z
Disk ID: {6451099E-C41A-4460-9406-328321F6F74A}
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 1
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 4 G Data NTFS Partition 5588 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
WD My Book 1230 USB Device
Disk ID: DB4BF07B
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 5 E My Book NTFS Partition 3725 GB Healthy
DISKPART>In the example above, disks 0 and 1 are internal drives while disk 2 is an external USB drive.
To view details on just one parition on a drive, after selecting the
drive select the parition with select partition n,
where n is the partition number, then issue the command
detail partition. Partition numbers start with the number
one.
DISKPART> select disk 2 Disk 2 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> select partition 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> detail partition Partition 1 Type : 07 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 5 E My Book NTFS Partition 3725 GB Healthy DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> select partition 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> detail partition Partition 3 Type : 07 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 21283995648 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 D OS NTFS Partition 179 GB Healthy DISKPART>
Note: a partition
number isn't the same as the
volume number.
E.g., partition 3 above is volume 2, which corresonds to drive letter D on the
system. To see details for a volume, with the disk drive it resides on
selected, issue the comand select volume n, where
n is the volume number; the volume numbers start with the number
1. Then issue the command detail volume.
DISKPART> select volume 2 Volume 2 is the selected volume. DISKPART> detail volume Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- * Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B Read-only : No Hidden : No No Default Drive Letter: No Shadow Copy : No Offline : No BitLocker Encrypted : No Installable : Yes Volume Capacity : 179 GB Volume Free Space : 146 GB DISKPART>
Created: Saturday January 24, 2015