Chapter 10

Implementing Hard Drives

Lab Exercises

10.01    Creating and Formatting Partitions with Windows Installation Media

10.02    Creating and Formatting Partitions with Gnome Partition Editor (GParted)

10.03    Using Windows Tools to Create and Format Partitions

10.04    Converting Basic Disks to Dynamic Disks with Disk Management

10.05    Implementing Software RAID 0 with Disk Management

10.06    Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives

Lab Analysis Test

Key Term Quiz

 

Once you’ve installed a new drive on a PC and it has been recognized by the system, you have two more steps to complete before you can start storing data: partitioning and formatting.

   Hint

The tasks of partitioning and formatting have really become automated into ...

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