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Format and mount a non-boot disk on a Windows VM | Compute Engine Documentation

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If you attached a new, blank disk to your VM, before you can use it you must format and mount the disk. If you attached a disk that already contains data, then you must mount the disk before you can use it.

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1. Go to the VM instances page.

   Go to the VM instances page

2. Click the RDP button next to the VM that has the new blank disk attached. The browser opens an RDP connection to the instance.

Use the Windows Disk Management utility to format and mount the new disk on a Windows VM.

1. Right-click the Windows Start button and select Disk Management.

2. Disk Management prompts you to select a partitioning scheme for the new disk. Select GPT and click OK.

3. After the disk initializes, right-click the unallocated disk space and select New Simple Volume.

4. Follow the instructions in the New Simple Volume Wizard to configure the new volume. You can use any partition format that you like, but for this example select NTFS. Also, check Perform a quick format to speed up the formatting process. Optionally, set the cluster size in the Allocation unit size field. The cluster size limits the maximum size of the partition. Keep this in mind if you try to resize the zonal persistent disk and this partition later.

5. After you complete the wizard and the volume is formatted, check the Status column on the list of attached disks to ensure that the new disk has a Healthy status.

You can now write files to the disk.

• Learn how to resize your persistent disks.
• Learn how to regularly back up your disks using snapshots to prevent unintended data loss.

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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.

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