Difference between disk Management & diskpart.exe

[Techie4]

hi, i know both disk management and diskpart utility in server 2003 are able to manage disk partition like create, extend, delete, etc. what difference between them? thanks for help.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Diskpart is a command line utility and can most likely be run from an external drive/media. Disk management has a GUI thus needs to run in a windows environment. Diskpart also seems to have some extra options.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff794606%28v=winembedded.1001%29.aspx