How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP?

INTRODUCTION

This step-by-step article describes how to use the Windows XP Disk Management snap-in to configure a basic disk and prepare it for use. This article also describes how to create and delete partitions, and how to format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems.

MORE INFORMATION

Basic disks and volumes
Basic disk storage supports partition-oriented disks. A basic disk is a physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives. Partitions and logical drives on basic disks are also known as basic volumes. You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended partition, that contain logical drives.

If you are running Windows XP Professional and one or more of the following operating systems on the same computer, you must use basic volumes, because these operating systems cannot access data that is stored on dynamic volumes:

* Windows XP Home Edition
* Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or earlier
* Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition(Me)
* Microsoft Windows 98
* Microsoft Windows 95
* MS-DOS

How to use Disk Management

To start Disk Management:
1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrator group.
2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that you want to use.


NOTE: Microsoft recommends that you create a full back up of your disk contents before you make any changes to your disks or volumes.

How to create a new partition or a new logical drive

To create a new partition or logical drive on a basic disk:
1. In the Disk Management window, complete one of the following procedures, and then continue to step 2:
o To create a new partition, right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create partition, and then click new partition.
o To create a new logical drive in an extended partition, right-click free space on an extended partition where you want to create the logical drive, and then click New Logical Drive.
2. In the New Partition Wizard, click Next.
3. Click the type of partition that you want to create (either Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical drive), and then click Next.
4. Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and then click Next.
5. Decide whether to manually assign a drive letter, let the system automatically enumerate the drive, or do not assign a drive letter to the new partition or logical drive, and then click Next.
6. Specify the formatting options you want to use by using one of the following procedures:
o If you do not want to format the partition, click Do not format this partition, and then click Next.
o If you want to format the partition, click Format this partition with the following settings, and then complete the following procedure in the Format dialog box:
1. Type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
2. Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box. You can change the disk allocation unit size, and then specify whether to perform a quick Format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.

Click Next.
7. Confirm that the options that selected are correct, and then click Finish.

The new partition or logical drive is created and appears in the appropriate basic disk in the Disk Management window. If you chose to format the volume in step 6, the format process now starts.


How to format a basic volume

To format a partition, logical drive or basic volume:
1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to format (or reformat), in then click Format.
2. In the Format dialog box, type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
3. Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box. If you want, you can also change the disk allocation unit size, specify whether you want to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
4. Click OK.
5. Click OK when you are prompted to format the volume. The format process starts.


How to view the properties of a basic volume

To view the properties of a partition or logical drive:
1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want, and then click Properties.
2. Click the appropriate tab to view the appropriate property.


How to delete a partition or a logical drive

To delete a partition or logical drive:
1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to delete, and then click Delete Partition or Delete Logical Drive.
2. Click Yes when you are prompted to delete a partition or logical drive. The partition or logical drive is deleted.


Important
o When you delete a partition or a logical drive, all the data on that partition or logical drive are deleted.
o You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or a partition that contains the active paging (swap) file.
o You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty. All logical drives in the extended partition must be deleted before you can delete the extended partition.


Troubleshooting

Disk Management displays status description in graphical view and under the Status column of list view to inform you of the current status of the disk or volume. Use these status descriptions to help you detect and troubleshoot disk and volume failures. The following is a partial list of disk and volume status descriptions:
o Online
This is the normal disk status when the disk is accessible and functioning correctly.
o Healthy
This is the normal volume status when the volume is accessible and functioning correctly.
o Unreadable
The disk is inaccessible because of possible hardware failure, corruption, or I/O errors.

To troubleshoot this issue, restart the computer or rescan the disk to try and return the disk to Online status. To rescan the disk, open Computer Management, and then click Disk Management. On the Action menu, click Rescan Disks. google.com, pub-8056491207757224, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

How To Delete Temporary Files In Your Computer

Windows:

Click:

1.       Start  Menu

2.       Type on the search bar “ %temp% ” 

3.       Enter

4.       Temp

5.       Enter

6.       On the Temp Folder  Select all files

7.       Enter

8.       Delete files

9.       Yes

10.   When you see “ Try again, Skip, Cancel”

11.   Select “Skip” 2 times or many times and you are done

Or:

1.       Start  Menu

2.       Type on the search bar “ run ” 

3.       Enter

4.       Type “ %temp% ”

5.       Ok

6.       On the Temp Folder  Select all files

7.       Enter

8.       Delete files

9.       Yes

10.   When you see “ Try again, Skip, Cancel”

11.   Select “Skip” 2 times or many times and you are done

How To Keep Your Computer Healthy

Windows:

1.      Basic Disk Cleanup

2.      Basic Defragment

3.      Update windows

4.      Update drivers

5.      Use Antivirus

6.      Delete Temporary Files

7.      (Optional) Use DeepFreeze by Faronics to make your computer totally protected.

I hope these will help everyone.

I’ve been using these procedures over the years.

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How To Clean-up Your Computer

Basic Procedure For Windows:  

Click:

1.      Start Menu

2.      All programs

3.      Accessories

4.      System Tools

5.      Disk Cleanup

6.      Select Drive

7.      Ok

8.      Ok

9.      Delete Files

Do this regularly.

How To Defrag  Your Computer

Basic Procedure For Windows:  

Click:

1.       Start Menu

2.       All programs

3.       Accessories

4.       System Tools

5.       Disk Defragmenter

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2. Download Manager
3. Anti-Virus
4. CCleaner
5. Open Office
6. Media Player
7. Adobe Reader
8. WinRAR
9. Yahoo Messenger
10. Skype

How To Disable Startup Items In Windows 7

To Improve Startup And Reboot Performance Of Your PC

This is one of the safe and useful tricks to improve
and make a faster restart or reboot your computer.

Click: Start Menu
Type on the search box: msconfig
Enter or
Click: msconfig
Click: Startup
Click: Disable all or
Uncheck: What you want to disable on startup
Click: Apply
Click: Ok
Click: Restart

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Tel. No.: *99#

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Password: gibtel    ( You can leave this blank)

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To check your credit balance dial the shortcode *100# and press send. Your credit balance will appear on your 
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How to set up a dial-up connection in Windows 7

This is the best way to set up a dial-up connection to make your Internet connection faster. Huawei modem 3G E176G, E220 & Vodafone modems.

This set up is tested by myself with different network providers: Vodafone ES & Gibtel.
You can also use this set up for other network providers such as CTS, SmatBro & Globe or other networks using their dial-up numbers.


Click: Start Menu
Click: Control Panel
Click: Network and Sharing Center
Click: Set up a new connection or network
Select: Set up a dial-up connection
Connect to the Internet using a dial-up connection
Click:                             next
Dial-up phone number: *99#
User name:                    gibtel (Optional: You can leave this blank)
Password:                     gibtel  (Optional: You can leave this blank)
Connection name:        Put your desired name
Click:                            Connect 
Wait until you see Browse the Internet now
And you are connected to the Internet


On the notification area or at the task bar
Click: the network icon
Right click on the dial-up connection
Click: Status
Click: Properties
Click: Options
Check only the box for Display progress while connecting or leave the boxes blank
Redial attempts:                        3
Time between redial attempts: 1 second
Idle time before hanging up:     never
Check the box for redial if line is dropped


If you cannot connect you must disable the firewall.
Click: Start Menu
Type: sevices
Enter
Look for: Windows Firewall
Right click on Windows Firewall
Click: Properties
Select: Disabled
Click:  Apply
Click:  OK