Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Server 2008 in 24 Hours

Chapter 6. Managing Hard Drives and Volumes

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Managing Disk Drives Using Windows Server 2008

• Using the Disk Management Snap-in

• Creating a Simple Volume on a Basic Disk

• Converting a Basic Drive to a Dynamic Drive

• Creating a Spanned Volume on a Dynamic Disk

• Extending a Volume

• Understanding RAID

• Implementing RAID 1

• Implementing RAID 5

• Viewing Drive Properties

• Planning Your Server Backups

• The Windows Server 2008 Backup Utility

• Backing Up Files with Windows Server Backup

• Restoring Files

• Creating a Scheduled Backup

Managing Disk Drives Using Windows Server 2008

An important aspect of configuring a server is setting up the hard drive or drives on the server so that the computer can successfully fulfill its role on the network. For example, ...