Open disk management from Command Prompt to manage drive partitions

Open disk management from CMD to manage (extend or  shrink) drive partitions:

Normally windows users gets a situation to extend or shrink a partition to manage disk space usage..

We can do it using Boot CD  like Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 

But we can  open the Disk Management utility in Windows  from the Command Prompt itself .

This trick allows us   disk management to extend or shrink any drive partition any time anywhere


we have to  type a short command  from cmd to  Disk Management starts instantly.

The Disk Management command can be used in  all versions of Windows  like Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Simply Follow these steps :

These steps will start Disk Management from the Command Prompt in Windows:

it is extremely easy  to perform this operation and takes only few seconds

1:For Windows 8 Open Run from the Apps screen or press  windows button+R  button (windows button is positioned left to left control button and right to right alt button)


[Tip: For Windows 8 press Windows+X  then directly disk management  opens]


2: For Windows 7 and Windows XP just open all programs and then open Run from it  or  press  windows button+R  button

3: then type diskmgmt.msc   in it and then hit the Enter or OK button.


this screen opens then

That's it!

Now we  can  use Disk Management to extend or shrink disk space ,change drive letters, partition a drive, format a drive, and more.