And the Disk
List is merely a list of the physical disk devices in your PC, somewhat like
the Disk Drives branch in Device Manager.
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By default, the boxes in the Graphical View representing
multiple partitions (volumes) are not displayed proportionally
to their size; a 20 GB partition will appear to be roughly
the same size as a 100 GB partition. To fix this, go to View ???
Settings, choose the Scaling tab, and select the According to
capacity, using linear scaling option in both sections. You
can also customize the program??™s colors with the Appearance
tab, but unless you follow the steps in the upcoming
???Save Settings in Disk Management??? sidebar, your changes
will be lost as soon as you close the window.
Disk Management takes an active role in making drives available in Windows
Explorer. Most of the time, as soon as you insert a flash memory card
Figure 5-15. Open the Disk Management utility to add or remove partitions, shuffle drive
letters, and even change the way volumes are mounted
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into your card reader or pop in a CD or DVD, the new volume appears in
Disk Management and Explorer. But sometimes, Disk Management may fail
to acknowledge that you??™ve connected a device (say, an external hard disk),
and as a result, its drive letter won??™t appear in Explorer. To force Windows
to recognize your drive changes, press the F5 key or go to Action ??? Rescan
Disks, and in a few seconds, the newly connected drive should appear in all
windows.
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