

You can tell you’re in a diskpart session from the new DISKPART> prompt, as shown below. In PowerShell, open a Diskpart session by typing diskpart. To open up the Diskpart shell, open Windows PowerShell as administrator.Ĭmd.exe will also work, but since PowerShell is the successor to the cmd.exe, the tutorial will use PowerShell. Instead of repeatedly typing the command diskpart over and over again, you instead run it once to be brought into an interactive session. A local user account account with administrator privileges to manage Windows storage.ĭiskpart, unlike many other command-line utilities, is interactive.Windows 7+ – All demos in this tutorial will use Windows 10, but everything should still work for older Windows versions.If you’d like to follow along with any demos in this tutorial, be sure you have the following:


Creating a Volume/Formatting a Partition.
