Disk Clean Up
Disk Clean up is a utility that is used when the computer is being maintained. This feature is part of the windows operating system. Its sole purpose of Disk Clean up is to free up disk space by deleting junk, temp and unused files it also is used to compress files as well. Disk Clean Up would become part of my arsenal if the PC I was working on were running sluggish and files started taking a really long time to open. I would also use it if I was running out of room on my Hard Drive.
Diskpart
Diskpart is actually a command line prompt the will allow you to create a partition on a hard drive without having to use the help of a third party software program such as True Image, Norton’s Ghost, and also Partition Magic. I actually used this command line prompt a couple days ago because I needed to create and format a partition on my usb flash drive so I could boot off of it from the bios. But there different way to utilize this feature and another on is to create a partition on the system drive and format it to any filing system FAT, FAT32, or NTFS and you would then be able use that section of your hard drive for storage or the installation of drives.
Defragmentation
In the maintenance of file systems, it is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments). It also attempts to create larger regions of free space using compaction to impede the return of fragmentation. I implement this tool all the time to reduce stress on my hard drive when looking for certain files. The less my hard drive has to move the better.
Disk Management Console The disk management console is an awesome built in tool otherwise known as a snap in, with this feature Windows has opened up a box of goodies for you to have complete control of your main HDD or any storage device entered in to your machine. Such as an under the hood raid, a what they call a Real World HDD Raid, it also has the capability to enable you to be able to remote in and make any changes to the storage devices on said PC. You can also create, move, extend, and manage Partitions. I would most likely put this tool in to use if I quickly wanted to create a partition for a dual boot. Also another awesome thing the disk management can do is enable me to create a dynamic disk which I then can create as many volumes as I want and put whatever image I want on them and get this I doesn’t require a reboot.

How can by performing the proper disk management be beneficial when implementing a system image to a computer?
When creating a new volume to implement an image upon it I would first go into Disk Management and check my hard drives specs size, how much room is left on my drive, also then I would create an appropriate sized partition and filing system more than likely NTFS to implement my image on.
Compare and contrast Basic and Dynamic Disks that can be configured on a hard drive. Your comparison should include the functionality, differences of each, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each type of disk management.
BASIC DISK
Use normal partition tables supported by MS-DOS and all Windows versions. A basic disk contains basic volumes, such as primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. If you have any volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, or stripe sets with parity, you must back them up and delete or convert them to dynamic disks before you install Windows XP Professional. A basic or dynamic disk can contain any combination of FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS partitions or volumes. The disadvantage of a basic disk is that you are limited to creating only four primary partitions per disk or three primary partitions and one extended partition with logical drives. Windows NT based systems can support striping and software RAID sets for basic disks but Windows 2000/XP/2003 do not.
DYNAMIC DISK are supported in Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Dynamic disks do not use partitions or logical drives. Dynamic disks were first introduced with Windows 2000. With dynamic disks you can create volumes that span multiple disks such as spanned and striped volumes, and you can also create fault tolerant volumes such as mirrored volumes and RAID 5 volumes. Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management because they use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and about other dynamic disks in the computer. Windows Server 2003 can repair a corrupted database on one dynamic disk by using the database on another dynamic disk. With dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without restarting Windows.
The Disadvantages of a Basic Disk 1. The partition size is limited to two terabytes. 2. The creation of a partition is limited to a single disk. 3. The input /output operation is limited. 4. It also has lack of fault-tolerant.
The Disadvantages of a Dynamic Disk is that you must delete all volumes on a dynamic disk before you can revert the disk back to a basic disk. Another major disadvantage of dynamic disks is the near absence of tools to fix the disk if it has corrupt sectors on it.