disk magmt task

Question 1

Mounting

Answer 1

flash drives and external drives typically auto mount and assign a drive letter. If you need to mount a drive, right-click the partition, and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. In the dialog box that opens, select Add. In the Add Drive Letter or Path dialog box, select the Mount in the following empty NTFS folder option and enter the folder path or browse to it.

Question 2

Initializing

Answer 2

When you add a new physical drive, it will be visible in Disk Management as Unknown and Not Initialized in the graphic display. Right-click the drive and select Initialize Disk. You can select whether to use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) partition style.

Question 3

Extending partitions

Answer 3

To extend a partition (add space to it), right-click the partition, and select Extend Volume.

Question 4

Splitting partitions

Answer 4

To split a partition, you would first have to shrink the partition. Once you have completed the steps to shrink the partitions, you will have new unallocated space. Right-click the unallocated space, and select the type of new volume you want to create.

Question 5

Shrink partitions

Answer 5

To shrink a partition, right-click the partition, and select the Shrink Volume option. Then change the size of the volume, as shown in the following exhibit:

Question 6

Assigning/changing drive letters

Answer 6

You can change a volume’s drive letter by right-clicking the drive, selecting the Change Drive Letter and Paths option, and selecting from the available drive letters.

Question 7

Adding drives

Answer 7

When you add a new drive, Disk Management will see it as a new unformatted drive. You will first need to format the drive, create the appropriate partition(s) on the drive, and assign a drive letter.

Question 8

Adding arrays

Answer 8

To add an array, right-click the unallocated space, and select the appropriate option from the list, as shown earlier in the Splitting partitions section. Simple volumes only use space from one drive. Spanned volumes use space from multiple drives. Striped and mirrored volumes use space from two drives. RAID-5 volumes use space from three or more drives.