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You arrive at the window shown in Figure 17-2. At first glance, it appears

to be nothing more than a table of every disk (and partition of every disk)
currently connected to your PC. In truth, the Disk Management window is a
software toolkit that lets you operate on these drives.

Figure 17-2. The Disk Management window does more than just display your drives; you can also
operate on them by right-clicking. Don’t miss the View menu, by the way, which lets you change
either the top or the bottom display. For example, you can make your PC display all your disks
instead of your volumes. (There’s a difference; see “Hard Drive Checkups”.)

Change a Drive Letter

As you’ve probably noticed, Windows assigns a drive letter to each disk
drive associated with your PC. In the age of floppy disks, the floppy drives

were always A: and B:. The primary internal hard drive is generally C:;
your CD/DVD drive may be D: or E:; and so on. Among other places, you
see these letters in parentheses following the names of your drives in the

This PC window.