Fdisk

Updated: 12/20/2017 by Computer Hope

Fdisk may refer to any of the following:

Screwdriver and wrench crossed in front of a folder.

1. Pronounced eff-disk, fdisk is an external MS-DOS utility released in March 1983 that configures the computers fixed disk drives. With fdisk, you can delete, create, and partition different portions of the hard drive. Microsoft's first version of fdisk was first made available in MS-DOS 3.2 and was also available in all earlier versions of Windows including Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. With the introduction of Windows XP, fdisk started to be replaced with the graphical Windows Disk Management utility and Recovery Console diskpart command.

2. Fdisk is a partition table manipulator for Linux.

Disk Management, Hard drive terms, Partition