Windows 2000 MMC Tools

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) provides a common environment for snap-ins. Snap ins can be added when required to control and manage different parts of the computer or network. (The below items may be part of the Computer Management tool.
Microsoft Management Console Tools
Disk Management - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is the replacement for the Windows NT Disk Administrator. Only a member of the Administrators group can use this tool. It can manage local or remote disk volumes. It is used to:
Make and format partitions.
Create, format, or delete simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 volumes.
Modify a disk from basic to dynamic type or vice versa, create. A disk can only be converted from dynamic to basic by first deleting all the volumes in the dynamic disk.
Display information about the disk including the disk type (basic or dynamic), disk number, disk size and disk status. Disk status can be:
Online
Foreign - Remote disk
No Media - For removable disks.
Offline - For dynamic disks that cannot be reached due to various possible reasons. The disk may be remote.
Online (errors) - There are errors on the disk.
Unreadable - Errors preventing access have occurred.
Unrecognized - Unknown type of disk. It will also provide volume information including size, name, and status. Volume status can be:
Healthy
Healthy (boot) - Active primary partition on the first drive.
Healthy (system) - if same as boot volume, it is called "Healthy (boot)".
Failed
Failed Redundancy - A fault tolerant volume is not on line.
Failed Redundancy (At Risk) - A fault tolerant volume that has lost fault tolerence has errors detedted on it.
Healthy (At Risk) - Errors have been detected on the volume.
Initializing - Dynamic volume being initialized.
Regenerating
Resynching - Mirrored volumes are being resynchronized
Recover from drive failures.
To start Disk Management, do one of:
Right click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Manage" and click "Disk Management" in the left pane.
Select "Start", "Programs", "Administrative Tools", and "Computer Management". In the left pane of the computer management box in the MMC, select "Disk Management".
Disk Defragmenter - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is used to analyze and defragment volumes.
To start Disk Defragmenter, do one of:
Right click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Manage" and click "Disk Defragmenter" in the left pane
Select "Start", "Programs", "Administrative Tools", and "Computer Management". In the left pane of the computer management box in the MMC, select "Disk Defragmenter".
Logical Drives - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is used to change logical drive labels, configure security settings, and view properties.
To start Logical Drives, do one of:
Right click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Manage" and click "Logical Drives" in the left pane
Select "Start", "Programs", "Administrative Tools", and "Computer Management". In the left pane of the computer management box in the MMC, select "Logical Drives".
Device Management
Fax Service Management
Indexing Service
Performance Logs and Alerts
Security Configuration and Analysis
System Information