May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
44h 25m
English
The Windows Vista version of Disk Management has simplified somewhat the arcane language of disk administration. Nevertheless, it’s still important to have a bit of the vocabulary under your belt. The following terms and concepts are the most important:
Volume. A volume is a disk or subdivision of a disk that is formatted and available for storage. If a volume is assigned a drive letter, as volumes generally are, it appears as a separate entity in Windows Explorer. (See the following paragraph for a type of volume that is not assigned a drive letter.) A hard disk can have one, several, or many volumes.
Mounted drive. A mounted drive is a volume that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS-formatted disk. ...
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