Windows 10 Disk Management tool get stuck and won’t load, how can I run this system utility and manage my disk
Before you enter this site, you probably have tried other solutions that covered the following:
sfc/scannow
in the command lineIf you haven’t try those methods, give a shot, after all, the reason to stuck Disk Management may vary, mine solution might not working too
A health disk with no or acceptable physical bad sectors and enough memory for this program to analyze disks status and then the ability to renter them to the disk map, the UI of the software
So if it won’t load after we typed diskmgmt.msc
in the RUN dialog or when we right-click on the start menu and choose ‘Disk Management’, it may have the following issues:
Hard disks may be the internal ones like HDD, SSD and the external storage like USB, SD card, mini SD Card, TF card, etc. It’s easy to tell if the problem is caused by external ones or not: plug-out and plug-in, but it’s hard, or troublesome, to be more precisely speaking, to be sure about the internal ones, but we can work this out
A small but powerful system utility to test disk surface, scan physical bad sectors, an easy to use, portable, both 32-bit and 64-bit available program
Download the portable package and directly run it if you don’t want to install and follow the steps below to see if we got bad sectors on the hard disk:
We use Windows built-in Disk Management to do the followings:
In Partition Expert we can do more the Disk Management tool
When managing disk, we can do the followings that Disk Management can’t:
While managing partitions, these extra functions are added:
But Partition Expert currently (v5.2.0) doesn’t support dynamic disk, if you’re running Disk Management to manage dynamic disk, feel free to ignore our software for now
However, for basic disks, Partition Expert definitely worth a try
There are occasions that C Drive is running out of space, and we want to run Disk Management to extend it, but only to find this tool got stuck
In this case, Partition Extender would be the optimal solution, easy steps like below would have C Drive extended without harming data on another drive
The other day I ran Disk Management after running VMware, I wanted to check the storage detail VMware takes, but Disk Management won’t load, not even opened in minutes, VMware got stuck too, I then force quite VMware and Disk Management, run diskmgmt.msc
again to open it, this time it opens smoothly
You may not run into this if you have enough memory, or RAM, for the computer, but it’s recommended to close all the running programs and files, no matter how big or small the program or file is, if Disk Management can’t lock the volume you’re editing, it has high chance to fail, the same to Partition Expert and Partition Extender
Hope those solutions may be the alternative methods to solve the Disk Management won’t load problem, please contact us if our programs won’t work.