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The document provides a guide for students in Technology and Livelihood Education 10 on disk management in Windows operating systems. It outlines essential learning competencies, objectives, and tasks related to managing disk drives, including extending and shrinking volumes, changing drive letters, and common maintenance tasks. Additionally, it lists alternative disk management software available online for enhanced functionality.

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4.REVISED-TLE-AS-CSS10-Q3-WK4-LESSON 4-LECTURE

The document provides a guide for students in Technology and Livelihood Education 10 on disk management in Windows operating systems. It outlines essential learning competencies, objectives, and tasks related to managing disk drives, including extending and shrinking volumes, changing drive letters, and common maintenance tasks. Additionally, it lists alternative disk management software available online for enhanced functionality.

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DIVISION OF GEN.

TRIAS CITY
Project ISuLAT – ACTIVITY SHEETS in Technology and Livelihood Education 10 (TLE)
(Intensified Support to Learning Alternatives Through Activity Sheets)

COMPUTER SYSTEM SERVICING G10


QUARTER 3–WEEK 4: DISK MANAGEMENT

I. Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC): 4.2 Carry out variation to


application software in accordance to customer/ client requirements.
TLE_IACSS9-12ICCS-IIIa-e-31

Objectives:
1. Identify the features and functions of Windows disk management software.
2. Learn how to perform basic disk management in your pc.
3. Develop the student’s decision-making skills by challenging the student’s
thinking skills on why and when to perform disk management protocols.

TEACH ME
Learning Task 1
Disk Management is an essential part of your operating system to assure the
proper functioning and maintenance of the disk drives present in your PC.

Learning Task 2
Disk management focuses on the advanced storage task in Windows
Operating System. It enables user to manage the disk drives (and the different
partitions) installed in their personal computers. It was first introduced in Windows
XP as substitute for the fdisk command. Now it is applied to several Windows OS
like:
1. Windows 10 5. Windows Server 2019
2. Windows 8.1 6. Windows Server 2016
3. Windows 7 7. Windows Server 2012 R2
4. Windows Server (Semi-Annual 8. Windows Server 2012
Channel)
Disk management can be used in several ways in your PC such as initializing
a new drive, extend a basic volume, shrink a basic volume, and change a drive letter.
Here are some ways on how to open disk management in your PC.
1. Use Windows+R to open Run, type diskmgmt.msc in the empty box, and
tap “OK”.

2. Right-click the Start button and choose “Disk Management” on the left.
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3. Type disk management in the search box on the task bar.

Extend a basic volume


You can use Disk Management to add space to an existing volume, extending
it into empty space on the drive, but only if the empty space doesn't have a volume
on it (it's unallocated) and comes immediately after the volume you want to extend,
with no other volumes in-between, as shown in the following image. The volume to
extend also must be formatted with the NTFS or ReFS file systems.

Shrink a basic volume


You can decrease the space used by primary
partitions and logical drives by shrinking them into
adjacent, contiguous space on the same disk. For
example, if you discover that you need an additional
partition but do not have additional disks, you can shrink
the existing partition from the end of the volume to create
new unallocated space that can then be used for a new
partition.

Change a Drive Letter

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If you wish to change the letter of the drive in your


PC, you can do it with the disk management
function. Just beware that if you change the drive
letter wherein the Windows OS or apps are installed,
it might have trouble running or finding the drive.
In this case, it is not suggested to change the drive
letter where the OS is installed.
This is the process of changing drive letters.
1. Open Disk Management with administrator
permission.
2. Right-click the volume for which you want to
change or add a drive letter.
3. Select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
4. Follow the instructions provided.
Aside from the said function of disk management, there are common tasks you might
want to do in relation to disk management and maintenance.
1. Disk Cleanup - It allows users to remove files that are no longer needed or that
can be safely deleted.
2. Disk Defragmentation - the process of consolidating fragmented files on the
user's hard drive by which it breaks the data apart so that it will fit into
available space.
3. Make multiple hard drives and pool them together, like a RAID.

There is also disk management software available online for download which
extends the capability of the default windows disk management. Below are the
examples of other available software online.
1. EaseUS Free Partition Manager 5. MiniTool Partition Wizard
2. Macrorit Disk Partition Expert 6. Gparted
3. Paragon Partition Manager 7. Cute Partition Manager
4. AOMEI Partition Assistant 8. Active@ Partition Manager

Some of the extended features of these software are merge partitions, migrate
OS to SSD/HDD, recover lost partition, and copy disk partition.

References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-
management/overview-of-disk-management
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-
management/extend-a-basic-volume

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