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220-1002 · Question #503

Joe. a technician imaged a laptop using third-party software, but the drive is now showing a smaller partition size than the installed disk space. Which of the following utilities will allow Joe to…

The correct answer is D. Disk Management. Windows Disk Management is the built-in graphical utility for resizing, extending, and managing disk partitions, making it the correct tool when a graphical interface is required after imaging a drive with a smaller partition than the available disk space.

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Question

Joe. a technician imaged a laptop using third-party software, but the drive is now showing a smaller partition size than the installed disk space. Which of the following utilities will allow Joe to resize the partition using a graphical interface?

Options

  • ADevice Manager
  • BDxDiag
  • CDiskPart
  • DDisk Management

How the community answered

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  • A
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  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    90% (35)

Why each option

Windows Disk Management is the built-in graphical utility for resizing, extending, and managing disk partitions, making it the correct tool when a graphical interface is required after imaging a drive with a smaller partition than the available disk space.

ADevice Manager

Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) is used to view, update, and manage hardware device drivers; it has no functionality for viewing or modifying disk partitions or volume sizes.

BDxDiag

DxDiag is the DirectX Diagnostic Tool used to collect and display system hardware and DirectX information for graphics and audio troubleshooting; it provides no disk partitioning or volume management capability.

CDiskPart

DiskPart is a powerful Windows disk partitioning utility that can extend volumes, but it operates exclusively through a command-line interface rather than a graphical interface as the question requires.

DDisk ManagementCorrect

Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) provides a graphical interface showing all disks and their partitions, including any unallocated space resulting from imaging a smaller partition onto a larger disk. The 'Extend Volume' wizard allows the administrator to expand the existing partition into the adjacent unallocated space with point-and-click operations, satisfying the requirement for a graphical interface tool.

Concept tested: Windows Disk Management GUI partition resizing

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/overview-of-disk-management

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#Disk Management#partition resize#disk imaging#Windows utilities

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