Easily viewing and recovering hard drive partitions: Several simple ways

Don't know how many partitions your hard drive has? This article will introduce several simple methods to help you quickly view hard disk partitions and teach you how to effectively recover deleted or lost partitions.

Hard disks are the main storage device of computers. To use the hard disk to store information or install Windows, you need to create a partition on the hard disk. If you need to store different types of directories and files in different partitions, you need to divide the disk into multiple partitions.

Generally speaking, disk partitions can be divided into primary partitions and logical partitions. An MBR disk can have up to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. GPT disks can hold up to 128 primary partitions. You may be interested in this article: MBR vs. GPT (focusing on differences and safe conversion methods).

Understanding the specific partition of the disk will help you better manage disk partitions and find files. How to check hard disk partition? Please try the following method.

Method 1: Use File Explorer to view disk partitions

The easiest way to view disk partitions on hard disks is through File Explorer, just like opening files on a specific disk.

Press Windows E key combination to open File Explorer. Next, you need to click on this computer and then all identified partitions will be listed in the right panel.

Additionally, you can right-click on the partition and select properties to change the volume label, check the file system, and more.

Method 2: Use disk management to view disk partitions

Disk Management is a tool on Windows that displays detailed information about each drive and all partitions per drive on your PC.

Right-click on the Windows logo button and select Disk Management . In Disk Management, all detected partitions are listed, including unallocated space.

You can change partition tags, drive letters, file systems, delete unallocated space, and more from disk management.

Method 3: Use CMD command to view disk partition

In addition to being used to troubleshoot and resolve certain types of Windows problems, permanently delete external hard disk files, etc., CMD tools can also be used to view partition information. To do this, you can refer to the following steps.

Step 1. Press the Windows R keyboard shortcut to open the run window.

Step 2. In the input box, type diskpart and press Enter .

Step 3. If the User Account Control window appears, select the Yes option.

Step 4. In the command line window, type the following command. Press Enter after each command.

• list disk
• select disk x (replace x with the target disk number)
• list partition

Method 4: Use partition management tools to view disk partitions

You can also check hard disk partitions through professional third-party partition management tools. MiniTool Partition Wizard is such a reliable and free partition manager. In addition to viewing disk partitions, it also allows you to copy partitions, move/resize partitions, align partitions, format partitions, hide/show partitions, and more.

Additional tip: How to recover lost/deleted partitions

If the disk partition is lost after a partition shrink, Windows update, or unexpectedly deleted, you can use the MiniTool Partition Wizard to recover the lost partition and the data on it.

To recover lost partitions, please refer to this tutorial: How to easily recover hard disk partitions?

If you just want to recover deleted files from unallocated space, you can use the free data recovery software MiniTool Power Data Recovery. This file recovery tool can help you recover deleted documents, videos, pictures, emails, etc. from USB drive, HDD, SSD, SD card, etc.

Summarize

This article describes how to check hard disk partitions in Windows 10 and how to recover lost partitions.

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