For detailed operation you can refer to how to reduce hard drive space in windows 10.
Disk drive windows 10.
If you ve recently upgraded to windows 10 and you couldn t find the dvd drive option in this pc windows 10 os window you re not alone some of you might not even see your dvd cd rom option in device manager.
If you re running windows 10 or windows 8 and you have a keyboard or a mouse disk management is one of many quick access options on the super useful power user menu.
See drives in windows 10 and windows 8.
The windows disk management tool should look similar to the image above.
Steps to add a hard drive to this pc in windows 10.
Windows 10 8 and 7.
How to enter the bios or cmos setup.
Just right click the start button or try the win x combination on your keyboard.
Chkdsk starts by scanning the file system on the disk drive and analyzing the integrity of the files file system and file metadata on the drive.
Windows xp and 2000.
Click start then click run.
Choose next in the new simple volume wizard window.
Windows 10 disk management the built in disk partition manager.
Windows 10 disk management is a built in tool which can be used to create delete format extend and shrink partitions and initialize a new hard drive as mbr or gpt.
Verify the computer s bios is configured to boot from a removable disk.
Shrink the volume of an existing hard drive.
To use your windows 10 installation disk follow these steps.
If you re running windows 10 or windows 8 you can view all mounted drives in file explorer you can open file explorer by pressing win e hold down the windows key and press e.
Windows 10 disk management the built in disk partition manager.
For detailed instructions see.
How to boot with your installation disk.
From the windows desktop press windows key type create and format hard disk partitions and then press enter.
How to set up a new drive.
In the left pane select this pc and all drives are shown on the right the screenshot shows a typical view of this pc with three mounted drives.
This elegant solution and tips to remove a dvd or cd from the drive is not just written for windows 10.
In the run text field type diskmgmt msc and press enter.
Right click unallocated or free space and choose new simple volume in the context menu to continue.
To access your bios you need to reboot the computer and press a specific key before boot sequence begins.