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B. Compression

C. Disk quotas

D. Encryption

8. How can you effectively expand the capacity of an NTFS?

A. Create an extended partition to extend the capacity.

B. Install a second drive and mount it to a folder on the original smaller NTFS drive.

C. Convert the drive to a dynamic disk and create a mirrored set.

D. Format the drive with the Quick Format option.

9. Which volume configuration uses parity for fault tolerance?

A. RAID 5

B. Mirrored set

C. Spanned volume

D. Striped volume

10. You will almost certainly destroy your hard drive if you reverse which of the following?

A. Power cable

B. Data cable

C. Jumpers

D. Pins

Answers

1. A. Windows 2000/XP and Windows Vista/7 can use FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS.

2. C. The four possible entries in a file allocation table are an end-of-file marker, a bad-sector marker, code indicating the cluster is available, and the number of the cluster where the next part of the file is stored.

3. B. Windows 2000/XP and Windows Vista/7 use the Disk Management console to partition and format a drive.

4. C. Because NTFS views individual files and folders as objects, it can provide security for those objects through an Access Control List.

5. B. The drive is a basic disk and not a dynamic disk. Partitions are created on basic disks, while volumes are created on dynamic disks.

6. D. Error-checking is used to check a drive for errors.

7. D. To make your files unreadable by others, use encryption.

8. B. You can effectively expand the capacity of an NTFS drive by installing a second drive and mounting it to a folder on the original smaller NTFS drive.

9. A. RAID 5 uses parity for fault tolerance.

10. A. You will almost certainly destroy your hard drive if you reverse the power cable.

CHAPTER 13

Removable Media

In this chapter, you will learn how to

Explain and install floppy disk drives

Demonstrate the variations among flash drives and other tiny drives

Identify and install optical-media technology

Troubleshoot removable media

Removable media refers to any type of mass storage device that you may use in one system and then physically remove from that system and use in another. Removable media has been a part of the personal PC since its first introduction back in 1980. Granted, back then the only removable media available were floppy disks, but being able to move programs and data easily from one machine to another was quickly established as one of the strongest points of the personal computer. Over time, higher-capacity removable media technologies were introduced. Some technologies—CDs, DVDs, Bluray Discs, and thumb drives, for example—have become very common. Other technologies (which you may or may not have heard of), such as Iomega Zip drives or HD DVDs, were popular for a time but faded away or were discontinued. The history of PCs has also left a trash heap of removable media technologies that were trumpeted in with fanfare and a lot of money but never really saw any adoption.

Today’s highly internetworked computers have reduced the need for removable media as a method of sharing programs and data, but removable media have so many other uses that this hasn’t slowed things down a bit. Removable media is the perfect tool for software distribution, data archiving, and system backup. Figure 13-1 shows my software toolbox. As a PC technician, you’ll not only need to install, maintain, and troubleshoot removable media on systems for users, but also find yourself turning to removable media as a way to store and run software tools to perform all types of PC support (remember the live CDs in Chapter 12?).

This chapter covers the most common types of removable media used today. For the sake of organization, all removable media are broken down into these groups:

Floppy drives The traditional floppy drive

Flash memory From USB thumb drives to flash memory cards

Figure 13-1 Author’s toolbox

Optical discs Any shiny disc technology from CD-ROMs and DVDs to Blu-ray Discs

External drives