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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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2. Make a stripe set.

3. Make them into a single volume spanned between both drives.

4. Make a single volume that takes up a portion of one drive, and then

extend that volume onto another portion of that drive. Finally, span

that volume to the other hard drive as well.

5. Create a volume of some sort—you decide—and then mount that

volume to a folder on the C: drive.

You’ll need to format the volumes after you create them so you can see

how they manifest in Windows Explorer/File Explorer. Also, you’ll need

to delete volumes to create a new setup. To delete a volume, right-click on

the volume and choose Delete Volume. It’s almost too easy.

Assigning/Changing Drive Letters and Paths

Disk Management enables you to modify the drive letter, path, or mount

point on currently installed mass storage devices. Right-click a drive and

select Change Drive Letter and Paths. You can assign a desired drive letter to

an optical drive—say, from D: to Z:, for example. Or, you can change a hard

drive from D: to a non-letter-named mount point so it shows up in Windows

Explorer/File Explorer as a subfolder. You have a ton of flexibility with Disk

Management.

EXAM TIP Disk Management is the go-to tool in Windows when adding

drives or adding arrays to a system.

Formatting a Partition

You can format any Windows partition/volume in Windows Explorer/File

Explorer. Just right-click on the drive name and choose Format. You’ll see a

dialog box that asks for the type of file system you want to use, the cluster

size, and a volume label (see Figure 9-50). You can also do a quick format or

compress the volume. The Quick Format option tells Windows not to test the

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