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Implementing Mass Storage

CHAPTER 9

In this chapter, you will learn how to

• Explain the partitions available in Windows

• Discuss hard drive formatting options

• Partition and format hard drives

• Maintain and troubleshoot hard drives

From the standpoint of your PC, a freshly installed hard drive is nothing more

than a huge pile of unorganized storage space. Sure, CMOS recognizes it as a

drive—always a step in the right direction—but your operating system is

clueless without more information. Your operating system must organize that

storage so you can use the drive to store data. This chapter covers that

process.

NOTE This chapter uses the term “hard drive” as a generic term that

covers all the drive types you learned about in Chapter 8, “Mass Storage

Technologies.” Once you get into Windows, the operating system doesn’t

particularly care if the drive is a magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) or a solidstate

drive (SSD). The tools and steps for preparing the drives for data are the

same.

Historical/Conceptual

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