Use Windows paste command ( CTRL+V) to move the picture to Windows Paint tool ģ. Press Print Screen key on your keyboard to capture the full screen and transfer it to Clipboard (invisible to user) Ģ. It would be much helpful if all hard drive can be seen in the disk map section (the lower half part in red).ġ. The illustration below gives the info what a proper Disk Management screenshot looks like. There is another common way to access Disk Management with Command Line for all the 4 Windows versions, just type Diskmgmt.msc in Windows run dialog, search box or CMD line, and press Enter to open it. Right click on Windows start button and choose Disk Management. Just right click on Computer and choose Manage, then locate the item Disk Management. How to access disk management in Windows Vista/7 So the information in Disk Management sometimes is very essential to investigate a hard drive related technical issues. Or whether a hard drive is correctly recognized by Windows or not can be also found there.

It usually gives a general and clear idea how the hard drives are used and how they works now in a computer. It enables users the ability to view and manage both internal/external hard drives and portable storage devices (thumb drives and cards) installed on their computers and the partitions associated with those drives. Disk Management is a Microsoft Windows utility which was firstly introduced in Windows XP.

Hard drive snapshot