How to take a screenshot for Windows Disk Management

What is Windows Disk Management

Disk Management is a Microsoft Windows utility which was firstly introduced in Windows XP. It enables users the ability toviewandmanage内部/外部硬盘驱动器和便携式圣orage devices (thumb drives and cards) installed on their computers and the partitions associated with those drives.

It usually gives a general and clear idea how the hard drives are used and how they works now in a computer. Or whether a hard drive is correctly recognized by Windows or not can be also found there. So the information in Disk Management sometimes is very essential to investigate a hard drive related technical issues.

How to access disk management in Windows Vista/7

Just right click onComputerand chooseManage, then locate the itemDisk Management.

How to access it in Windows 8/10

Right click onWindows startbutton and chooseDisk Management.

There is another common way to access Disk Management with Command Line for all the 4 Windows versions, just typeDiskmgmt.mscin Windows run dialog, search box or CMD line, and press Enter to open it.

The illustration below gives the info what a proper Disk Management screenshot looks like. It would be much helpful if all hard drive can be seen in the disk map section (the lower half part in red).

How to take a screenshot

1. PressPrint Screenkey on your keyboard to capture the full screen and transfer it to Clipboard (invisible to user);
2. Use Windows paste command (CTRL+V) to move the picture to WindowsPainttool;
3. The hotkey combinationCTRL+SinPainttool can help you save the capture as a picture file.

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