1 Tasks in Setting Up a Hard Disk Initialize the disk with a data storage type. Create partitions or...
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1 Tasks in Setting Up a Hard Disk • Initialize the disk with a data storage type. • Create partitions or volumes. • Format the disk partition or volume.
Transcript of 1 Tasks in Setting Up a Hard Disk Initialize the disk with a data storage type. Create partitions or...
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Tasks in Setting Up a Hard Disk
• Initialize the disk with a data storage type.
• Create partitions or volumes.
• Format the disk partition or volume.
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Storage Types
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Partition Types
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Volume Types
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Working with Simple Volumes
• A simple volume contains disk space from a single disk.
• Use Disk Management to create and format a simple volume.
• Create simple volumes only on dynamic disks.
• Format a simple volume with NTFS, FAT, or FAT32.
• Extend a simple volume that is formatted with NTFS.
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Working with Spanned Volumes
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Working with Striped Volumes
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Adding Disks
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Changing Storage Types
• Upgrade a basic disk at any time with no data loss.
• Existing partitions on the basic disk become simple volumes.
• Existing striped volume sets become dynamic striped volumes.
• Existing spanned volume sets become dynamic spanned volumes.
• Disk must contain at least 1 MB of unallocated space.
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Upgrading Basic Disks to Dynamic Disks
• Open Disk Management.
• Right-click the basic disk in the new computer.
• Click Upgrade To Dynamic Disk.
• When prompted, restart your computer.
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Reverting to a Basic Disk
• Remove all volumes.
• Open Disk Management.
• Right-click the dynamic disk.
• Click Revert To Basic Disk.
• All data is lost.
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Disk Properties
• Disk: the number for the disk in the system
• Type: basic or dynamic storage
• Status: the disk is online, offline, foreign, or unknown
• Capacity: total capacity for the disk
• Unallocated Space: amount of available space
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Disk Properties (continued)
• Device Type: IDE, SCSI, EIDE, and IDE channel
• Hardware Vendor: vendor and disk type
• Adapter Name: type of controller
• Volumes Contained On This Disk: volumes and total capacity
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Volume Properties
• General: volume label, type, file system, used and free space
• Tools: perform volume error-checking, backup, and defragmentation
• Hardware: checks properties of and troubleshoots the physical disks
• Sharing: sets network shared volume parameters and permissions
• Security: sets NTFS access permissions on NTFS version 4 and 5 volumes
• Quota: sets user quotas for NTFS 5 volumes
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Refresh
• Refresh updates drive letters, file system, and volumes.
• Refresh updates removable media information.
• Refresh determines if unreadable volumes are now readable.
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Rescan Disks
• Rescan Disks updates hardware information.• Removable media and CD-ROM drives• Basic volumes and drive letter• File sitemaps
• Scans all disks for disk configuration changes.
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Managing Disks on Remote Computers
• Member of Administrators group or Server Operators group
• Exact account and password on both computers in a workgroup
• Custom console with Disk Management pointing to the remote computer
