379 Chapter 12. Disk Management Administrators can use the Disk Management snap-in or the new DiskPart command-line tool to manage disks and volumes in Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional. Both tools support dynamic disks and volumes, which were introduced in Microsoft® Windows® 2000. Microsoft® Windows® XP 64-Bit Edition also introduces a new partition style, giving administrators additional choices for configuring disk storage. In this chapter: New in Disk Management Disk Management Overview Basic and Dynamic Disks and Volumes Managing Volumes During Windows XP Professional Setup Adding, Moving, and Importing Disks Managing GPT Disks in Itanium-based Computers Remote Disk and Command-Line Disk Management Guidelines for Maintaining Disks and Volumes Additional Resources 504 505 508 520 525 531 538 543 545 Related Information · For more information about the NTFS file system and the file allocation table file systems FAT and FAT32, see "File Systems" in this book. · For more information about troubleshooting problems related to disks and using Chkdsk and Disk Defragmenter, see "Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems" in this book. · For more information about the startup process and Boot.ini, see "Troubleshooting Startup" in this book. New in Disk Management The Windows XP Professional operating system provides improved disk management. Table 12-1 summarizes the enhancements made from Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional to Win- dows XP Professional. Table 12-1. Enhancements and Changes Since Windows 2000 New Feature Manage disks at the command line by using DiskPart. Extend simple and spanned vol- umes that were converted from basic to dynamic. Feature Description Use the new command-line tool DiskPart to perform disk-related tasks at the command line as an alternative to using the Disk Management snap-in. When you use DiskPart, you can create scripts to automate tasks, such as creating volumes or converting disks to dynamic. You can now extend most simple and spanned volumes after converting them from basic to dynamic. For more information, see "Converting Basic Disks to Dynamic Disks" later in this chapter.