Checklist: Add a New Disk

Review key concepts.

Overview of Disk Management; http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64098

Confirm that you are a member of the Backup Operators group or the Administrators group.

Search Help and Support for "standard account" and "administrator account".

For information about groups, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64099.

Add the new disk.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64100

Create partitions or volumes.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64106; http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64107

Format volumes on the disk.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64101;

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64104;

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64105