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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 9-33 Initializing a drive

Disk Management enables you to view the drive status of every mass

storage device in your system. Hopefully, you’ll mostly see each drive listed

as Healthy, meaning that nothing is happening to it and things are going

along swimmingly. You’re also already familiar with the Unallocated and

Active statuses, but here are a few more to be familiar with for the CompTIA

A+ exams and real life as a tech:

• Foreign drive You see this when you move a dynamic disk from one

computer to another.

• Formatting As you might have guessed, you see this when you’re

formatting a drive.

• Failed Pray you never see this status, because it means that the disk is

damaged or corrupt and you’ve probably lost some data.

• Online This is what you see if a disk is healthy and communicating

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