Personalization Change Top and Bottom View in Disk Management in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to change the top and bottom view in Disk Management for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Disk Management is a system utility in Windows for advanced storage operations.

Disk Management shows the details for each drive on your PC and all partitions for each drive. The details include statistics about the partitions, including the amount of space allocated or used.

You can change the top pane view in Disk Management to show a Disk List, Volume List (default), or Graphical View.

You can change the bottom pane view in Disk Management to show a Disk List, Volume List, Graphical View (default), or be Hidden.

Changes to the top and bottom view in the current Disk Management window are not saved and will only stay applied until you close Disk Management. When you open Disk Management next, it will show the default top (Volume List) and bottom (Graphical View) views again.

You can create a custom Disk Management snap-in MSC that can save and remember any changes made.


Reference:
learn.microsoft.com

Overview of Disk Management

Learn how to use the Disk Management system utility in Windows to initialize drives, extend volumes, shrink partitions, and change drive letters.
learn.microsoft.com


Contents



EXAMPLE: "Disk List", "Volume List", and "Graphical View" in Disk Management

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Option One

Change Top View in Disk Management


1 Open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).

2 Click/tap on View on the menu bar. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Top, and click/tap on Disk List, Volume List (default), or Graphical View to check which view you want.

Disk_Mangement_top_view.png





Option Two

Change Bottom View in Disk Management


1 Open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).

2 Click/tap on View on the menu bar. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Disk List, Volume List, Graphical View (default), or Hidden to check which view you want.

Disk_Mangement_bottom_view.png



That's it,
Shawn Brink


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It's amazing how such simple things sometimes elude me. I never knew about the "Disk list" view. That's a good way to see if an M.2 drive is NVMe or SATA and if a drive is MBR or GPT. There are other ways to do that, but this one is clean and simple.

Thanks for another very helpful tutorial!
 

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hsehestedt said:
It's amazing how such simple things sometimes elude me. I never knew about the "Disk list" view. That's a good way to see if an M.2 drive is NVMe or SATA and if a drive is MBR or GPT. There are other ways to do that, but this one is clean and simple.

Thanks for another very helpful tutorial!
Click to expand...

:shawn:
 

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