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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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RAID Not Found The CompTIA A+ 220-1001 exam objectives use the

term “RAID not found,” which doesn’t really exist as an error but instead

implies a series of errors where an existing RAID array suddenly fails to

appear. The problem with these errors is that they vary greatly depending on

the make and model of hardware RAID or (heaven forbid) if you used

software RAID.

A properly functioning hardware RAID array will always show up in the

configuration utility. If an existing array stops working and you enter the

configuration utility only to find the array is gone, you have big trouble. This

points to either dead drives or faulty controllers. In either case they must be

replaced.

If the array is gone but you can still see the drives, then the controller may

have broken the array on its own. This is a rare action that some controllers

take to try to save data. You should at least try to rebuild the array using

whatever tools the controllers provide.

Beyond A+

Modern hard drives have many other features that are worth knowing about

but that rarely impact beginning techs. A couple of the more interesting ones

are spindle speed and third-party hard drive tools. If you have a burning

desire to dive into hard drives in all their glory, you need not go any farther

than the StorageReview.com, an excellent site dedicated to HDDs and SSDs,

and more advanced storage devices such as storage area networks (SANs)

and network attached storage (NAS) devices.

Third-Party Partition Tools

Disk Management is a good tool, but it’s still limited for some situations.

Some really great third-party tools on the market can give you incredible

flexibility and power to structure and restructure your hard drive storage to

meet your changing needs. They each have interesting unique features, but in

general they enable you to create, change, and delete partitions on a hard

drive without destroying any of the programs or data stored there. Slick!

These programs aren’t covered on the CompTIA A+ exams, but all PC techs

use at least one of them, so let’s explore two of the most well-known

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