This post summarizes some tools to manage disks on Windows OS, including error fixing.
Tools to manage Disk on Windows
Windows utilities to manage disk on Windows
- GUI tools
- Disk Management
- CMD tools
- fdisk
- DiskPart
- chkdsk
- PowerShell cmdlets
GUI Tools
This section covers tools that
Disk Management
Disk Management is a GUI tool to fix errors on Windows
CMD Tools
This section covers tools that are run from the Windows command prompt (CMD).
fdisk
fdisk is quite an old tool.
It was substituted by DiskPart, at least since Windows 10.
DiskPart
DiskPart is a command-line tool.
It substituted fdisk.
chkdsk
chkdsk is a command-line tool.
You can find more information about chkdsk on this external link.
PowerShell cmdlets
The are PowerShell cmdlets to manage disks on Windows.
Examples: Get-Disk, Clear-Disk, Initialize-Disk, Set-Disk, Get-Volume
External references
- Microsoft; “Explore disk management tools“; Microsoft
- Microsoft; “chksk“; Microsoft