November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
1504 pages
42h 21m
English
In this chapter, you will learn how to
• Explain the partitions available in Windows
• Discuss hard drive formatting options
• Partition and format hard drives
• Maintain and troubleshoot hard drives
From the standpoint of your PC, a freshly installed hard drive is nothing more than a huge pile of unorganized storage space. Sure, CMOS recognizes it as a drive—always a step in the right direction—but your operating system is clueless without more information. Your operating system must organize that storage so you can use the drive to store data. This chapter covers that process.
After you’ve successfully installed a hard drive, you must perform two more steps to translate a ...
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