Ch.3 Managing Disk Pg.127-131 Flashcards
How do you reconfigure your drive during Disk Management?Pg.127
By deleting partitions or volumes on the drive.
When deleting a partition or volume , what will you see?Pg.127
A warning letting you know that all data on the volume or partition will be lost.
What file can’t be deleted through the disk management utility?Pg.127
Any file that contains the active paging(swap) file.
What should you do before deleting a partition or volume?Pg.127
Make sure file is empty or backup all your data that you want to keep.
What happens to the area after partition or volume deletion?Pg.128
It returns back to unallocated space.
Whats in place that can help you prevent users from removing devices from their Windows7 machines?Pg.128
Removable-device policies, that can be created through the Group Policy Object(GPO)
You can extend or shrink volumes on dynamic disks.Pg.128(T/F)
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What are you doing when you create an extended volume through the Disk Management utility?Pg.128
You are adding disk space to a single simple volume.
Where is the New Volume Wizard found?Pg.129
In Disk Management.
How do you start New Volume Wizard?Pg.129
Right click an area of free space where you want to create the volume, then you choose the type you want to create simple, spanned or striped.
What happens when you choose a spanned volume?Pg.129
You are creating a new volume from scratch that includes space from two or more physical drives, up to a max of 32 drives.
How is data written in spanned and extended volume on drives?Pg.129
Sequentially
How is data written in a striped volume?Pg.129
It’s written across all drives in 64KB stripes.
What are striped volumes normally used for?Pg.129
Temporary files and folders
What is another option you have volumes?Pg.129
You can extend the volume to create larger storage area.
