SUPER STUDY Flashcards
Types of Installs
In Place Upgrade Clean Install Image Install Unattended Install Repair Install
In Place Upgrade
Type of install that saves apps and settings
Unattended Install
answers questions asked during install
Dual Boot
2 OS’s on one computer
Recovery Partition
hidden partition with install files
Refresh/Restore
Windows 8 feature, built into OS, no install media needed
Disk Partitions
separates physical drive into logical pieces
Volumes
formatted partitions with file systems (NTFS, fat 32)
MBR partition
Master Boot Record
Primary Partition
contains OS bootable file
marked as active when booted from
max of 4 primaries per disk
Extended Partition
extends max number of partitions
one extended per disk
partitions inside extended not bootable
GPT partition
GUID partition table
latest
requires UEFI
up to 128 primary partitions
FAT
File allocation table
One of the first PC file systems
exFAT
microsoft flash drive system
files can be >4gb
FAT32
Larger (2 TB) volume sizes
Max file size of 4gb
NTFS
NT file system, started in windows NT, improvements
Included quotas, file compression, encryption, large
File support, recoverability
CDFS
CD file system
All OS’s can read the CD
ext3
3rd extended file system
used in linux
ext4
update from Ext3
used in Linux and Android
NFS
Network File System
access drives as if they were local
Basic Disk Storage
DOS and windows, partitions cannot span across separate physical disks
Dynamic Disk Storage
span across multiple disks to make one volume (RAID)
CHKDSK /f
fix errors found on disk
CHKDSK /r
finds bad sectors and recovers readable info
COPY /V
verifies files are written correctly
COPY /Y
suppresses overwrite prompt
XCOPY
copies files and entire directories
ROBOCOPY
a better XCOPY
can resume copy if errors occur
SFC
scan integrity of all protected file systems
SFC /scannow
repairs files
EXPAND
expands folders
SHRINK
reduces the size of the volume
GPUPDATE
force a group policy update
GPRESULT
view policy settings for a computer or user
bootrec /fixmbr
fixes MBR on physical drive
bootrec /fixboot
“invalid partition table”
bootrec /rebuildbcd
rebuilding boot config data
msconfig
manage boot process, startup apps, services
Windows 7 Task Manager
Applications Processes Performance Networking Users
Windows 8
Users
Disk Status: Resynching
RAID 1 is synching between drives
Disk Status: Regenerating
RAID 5 is recreating itself based on a parity bit
Upgrade Advisor
Windows 7
checks software and hardware compatibility
Upgrade Assistant
Windows 8
checks software and hardware compatibility
regedit
windows registry editor
huge master database
drives, services, security account manager, backup