Exam 10: Implementing Hard Drives

A(n) _______________ enables you to use your existing folders to store more data that can fit on a single drive or partition/volume

You should never defrag a(n) _______________ because it can shorten its lifetime.

The first sector of an MBR hard drive contains the _______________.

What is the difference between Disk Management and FDISK?

What type of problem does the error message "No Boot Device Present" indicate?

Compare the globally unique identifier partition table (GPT) to the MBR partitioning scheme.

During boot-up, the BIOS/POST reads the MBR to find the _______________ partition and boots the operating system on that partition.

When a computer boots up, where does BIOS look for instructions?

_______________ occurs as files begin to separate over time.

What are the differences in the abilities of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 to resize partitions?

A(n) _______________ causes the format utility to test every sector to mark out the unusable ones in the FAT.

What is a hidden partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS?

List any two advantages of NTFS over other file systems.

What is the purpose of the Disk Management program in Windows?

What is a file allocation table, or FAT?

What is the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD)?

What is the difference between extending a disk and spanning a disk?

Microsoft calls a hard drive that uses either the MBR partitioning scheme or the GPT partitioning scheme a(n) _______________ disk.

Which type of dynamic disk requires three or more dynamic disks with equal-sized unallocated spaces?

What Windows tool partitions a drive?