1.9 – Creating & Managing Partitions

Question 1

Partition Table Formats

Answer 1

• Logical segments of a physical hard drive
• Created for data separation
• Have to be in Disk Management

Question 2

MBR = Master Boot Record [OLD]

Answer 2

• This is the first sector of a MBR partitioned drive & contains code that informs the system about installed OS
• Allows 4 primary partitions & extended [logical]
• Limited to 2.2TB partitions

Question 3

GPT = GUID Partition Table [Globally Unique Identifier]

Answer 3

• Theoretically allows unlimited primary partitions
• Windows is limited to 128 primary partitions by design
• NOT limited to 2.2TB partitions

Question 4

Primary Partitions

Answer 4

• These are used to boot an OS
• If you have multiple OS on one disk, they each will require their own primary partitions

Question 5

Extended Partitions

Answer 5

• These are used to overcome the 4 primary partitions
• A single extended partition can contain many logical drives; each logical drive appears as a partition but CANNOT be used to store OS

Question 6

Hidden Partitions

Answer 6

• Often used by OEMs to store system recovery data [recovery partitions]

Question 7

Swap Partitions

Answer 7

• Used a virtual memory by some OS

Question 8

Drive Format

Answer 8

• Full Format
  –Runs an additional step that checks the HD for any bad sector
• Quick Format
  –Drive is NOT checked for bad sectors