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What type of problem does the error message "No BOOT Device" indicate?
Connectivity
To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose ____.
Extend volume
Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.
Molex
What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows?
Error-checking tool
Which two terms identify a bootable partition?
Primary, Active
The ____ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.
MBR
Where do some PC manufacturers hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration?
Hidden partition
What type of problem does the error message "No BOOT Device" indicate?
Connectivity
Which of the following does not require jumper settings?
SATA
To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose ____.
Extend volume
What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?
Disk Manager
Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.
Molex
In Windows, each ____ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:.
partition
What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows?
Error-checking tool
Which two terms identify a bootable partition?
Primary, Active
The ____ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.
MBR
Where do some PC manufacturers hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration?
Hidden partition
Which of the following does not require jumper settings?
SATA
What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?
Disk Manager
What will happen to your data if you try to convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk?
Data will be lost
A PC can boot to both Windows XP and Linux or Windows Vista. What is this called?
Dual-boot
What tool in Windows is used to partition and format a drive?
Disk Management
For what purpose can you use disk quotas?
Limit users' space on a drive.
All basic hard drive partition tables support up to ____ partition(s).
four
If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager?
Foreign drive
Adam wants to create a new simple volume in some unallocated space on his hard drive, but when he right-clicks the space in Disk Management he sees only an option to create a new partition. What is the problem?
The drive is a basic disk and not a dynamic disk.
The ____ stores the location of the operating system boot files.
volume boot sector
What is the capacity of a single sector?
512 bytes
By default, what is the maximum size of an NTFS dynamic disk?
16 TB
An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a ____.
mount point
A ____ volume is similar to a primary partition, but it is not a primary partition.
simple
The Disk Cleanup utility removes which types of unneeded files?
Temporary Internet files,
Temporary Files that remain when an application is closed
Disk mirroring is also known as _____.
RAID 1
In Windows Vista, what can't you create unless you already have three primary partitions?
Extended partitions
The operating system is stored in a(n) ____ partition.
primary
To make your files unreadable by others, what should you use?
Encryption
Which of the following is the default primary partition for Windows?
C:
How many partitions can be active on a single drive at any given point in time?
One
You receive an "Invalid media" error when trying to access a hard drive. What is the most likely cause of the error?
The drive has not been formatted
Which of the following utilities should you run once a month to maintain the speed of your PC?
Disk Defragmenter
Which of the following statements is true about extended partitions?
They are optional.
If you install two IDE drives on the same cable, how will the computer differentiate them?
You must set jumpers to determine which drive functions as master and which functions as slave.
Which is the most complete list of file systems Windows 2000/XP and Vista/7 can use?
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
Jaime wishes to check her hard drive for errors. What tool should she use?
Error-checking
The drive technology that supports only a single device per controller channel is known as _____.
SATA
To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select ____.
Convert to Dynamic Disk
What tool can you use to free up space on your hard drive?
Disk Cleanup
How many spanned drives does a Windows Dynamic volume support?
32
A ____ is a place in the directory structure of an existing volume that you can point to a volume or partition.
mount point
partition table
MBR checks this to find the active or bootable partition.
mirrored volume
This requires exactly two volumes and is extremely fault tolerant.
Checkdisk
This tool attempts to fix invalid filenames, erases lost clusters, and seals off bad clusters.
primary partition
Only a single one of these may be set to active on one drive.
NTFS
This uses a master file table with a backup copy placed in the middle of the disk for better security.
Expand
This is used to extract a specific file from a CAB file.
Windows Vista/7
NTFS is the best file system to use if you are using this.
defragmentation tool
This can improve hard drive performance.
autodetect
This is a great way to verify that a drive is installed correctly.
Disk Cleanup
This is useful for purging your system of unnecessary temporary files.