winternals erd commander 2005 Manuel D’Utilisation

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The Disk Management utility is a snap-in to the ERD Commander 2005 

Computer Management utility that is located in the Administrative Tools folder 

of the Start menu. It provides information on drive-letter to volume mappings 

as well as a graphical disk partitioning and formatting interface.  

The drive letters that ERD Commander 2005 assigns to volumes may not be 

the same as those made when you boot normally into the system you are 

repairing. To aid in identifying volumes, two ways are provided to view 

detailed drive letter mapping information. The first is with the map [Map] 

command in the ERD Commander 2005 Command prompt, and the second 

is accessed from the ERD Commander Disk Management utility.  

The bottom portion of ERD Commander 2005 Disk Management’s window 

shows a graphical view of the system's disks and partitions. A context-menu 

specific to the selected object appears in the All Actions submenu of the 

Action menu; you can also right-click on an object to access the same menu. 

You can create new partitions or volumes within free space, format, delete, 

and explore existing volumes, and for partitions on Basic Disks (disks that 

use Master Boot Record – MBR – partitioning), mark a partition as Active 

(bootable).  Most of the operations available in ERD Commander 2005 Disk 

Management are also available in Diskpart [Diskpart], a command-line disk 

partition tool with scripting capability. 

If a volume does not have an assigned drive letter in the ERD Commander 

2005 environment, you can assign one for that session so that you can 

explore the volume, run Chkdsk, and perform other operations on it.