Why use a command line tool when there’s a perfectly good graphical interface at your disposal? Many experienced users find the command line faster, since your hands can stay on the keyboard and there’s no need for mouse clicking. The most versatile of these is diskpart.exe, a command interpreter that allows you to do, at the command line, most of the same disk management tasks that you can perform with the Disk Management console-and more. The graphical disk management utility (part of the Computer Management MMC) is the most obvious, but many XP users don’t realize that they also have powerful command line utilities at their service. Windows XP includes a variety of tools to help you manage your physical and logical disks.

We’ve come a long way since the DOS days when the FDISK command was the primary means of managing disks. Partitioning, formatting, defragmenting, and creating volumes are all skills that help a computer user or technician optimize the way storage space is used by the system and organize the data, system, and application files that are stored on the disk. One of the most basic tasks involved in using computers is managing disks. Here's how to use this utility to speed up your disk management duties in Windows XP. The DiskPart utility allows you to perform, from the command line, most of the same disk management tasks that you can perform with the Disk Management console. Take command of disk management in Windows XP with DiskPart

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