Disk Management and Boot Sequence Vocab

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Contains OS files; up to 4 per hard drive, not subdivisible.

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Primary Partition

Front

A section of an extended partition.

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Logical Drive

Front

Boots the computer; contains boot & system files. Only one per disk.

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Active Partition

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Only one per hard drive, can be subdivided.

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Extended Partition

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Process that prepares a file system for file storage: __________

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formatting

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Ability to create volumes across multiple disks; size can be changed after creation.

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Dynamic Disk

Front

Contains primary & extended partitions, limited to 4. What type of disk is this?

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Basic Disk

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Diagnostic mode for troubleshooting Windows startup issues.

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Safe Mode

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Loads the last successful Windows configuration settings.

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Last Known Good

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Locates and reads configuration settings in CMOS memory.

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BIOS