Customising Your PC Quiz

This quiz covers the the training module “Customising Your PC”. This module contains four lessons. Here is a summary of the previous lessons. This first lesson is “Desktop Icons“. The second lesson is “Customising Your Desktop”. The third lesson is “Installing Software”. The forth lesson is “Uninstall Software”. To pass this quiz you need a…

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Spanned Volumes

Spanned Volumes can make use of any unused drive space on separate drives.  Spanned Volumes are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks were to fail the entire volume would be lost with the data along with it.  There can be up to 32 disks in a spanned volume. Spanned Volumes are supported in…

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Volume Sets

Fault-Tolerance/Redundancy of data and high speed data access are essential requirements in many of today’s businesses.  Using dynamic disks in Windows 2003 enables the use of Volume Sets. A volume consists of a part or parts of one or more physical disks grouped in either a simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 configuration. Use the…

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File Systems

Once a partition/volume has been created, it then needs to be formatted with a File System. A File System organises and allows for the retrieval of the data stored on the disk.  This mechanism is similar to how office file systems operate. Files are stored in folders and then indexed so that they can be…

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Converting to Dynamic Disks

In order to use a dynamic volume on a Windows XP/2003 system the original basic disk will need to be converted to a dynamic disk.  Existing basic partitions on the disk will be upgraded to volumes, however upgraded volumes may not then be extended.  To convert a disk to dynamic there must be at least…

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