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Lab 9- Hard Disk Partitions Activity 1-Creating Hard Drive Partitions 1. Whst is a hard drive partitbon and wfat W'indowa tol can you use ta create ce 2 Why are partitions uneful? Include examples froen the perspective of everyday users, power usens, and computer manufacturers . Why do we want to leave some available space in the (C) volume in strep 77 What are the file system types available in the Windows partition management tool? 5. What is the difference between these file systerm types, inchuding the benefits and drawbacks of each Activity 2-Configuring Partition Security What are some of the ways that you can manage partition secunity in Windows? For instance, what can you deny or allow, and to who 2 What uses does partition security hanve? Can you think of a creative way to implement it? Were you able to open the NTFS partition in step 97 Why or why mot? Activity 3-Formatting 1 What does formatting a partition do? Did your aser access nights change in any way affer formatting the partition? 211 6 F G HKL

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Activity 1

1) Hard drive partition or we say disk partition is a section of hard disk which is separated from other segments. This helps user to divide hard drive into different portions for certain reasons. For examples, allowing multiple operating systems running on same device. It also act like secondary storage so that operating system can manage information separately in each partition.

The windows built in tool Disk Management is used for partitioning hard drive.

3) Some available free space is needed for a variety of reasons like if drive gets filled up, you will not be able to save any new files to the drive or download anything, including Windows Updates. Programs often create cache files, so they might crash if no free space is available.

If you open a large number of programs and need extra memory,your program may crash apparently.
For example, if a drive is completely full and attempted to run its included troubleshooters, we see message saying “A problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting”. Windows provides no further details, but freeing up space allowed the troubleshooters to start. These tools can’t function without some free space, and other programs may also break for no apparent reason unless you realize your system drive is full and free up some space
There’s no fixed percentage or number of gigabytes of free space you need to maintain. Microsoft does not tell specific amount of free space you should maintain.
Its recommended to leave 15% to 20% of a drive empty. Because, traditionally, you needed at least 15% free space on a drive so Windows could defragment it.

4) and 5) There are follwing types of file system types in windows disk management tool.

NTFS: This allows you to view and write any files you would like through Windows. But you cannot write onto this file format using a Mac OS distribution.

FAT32: This allows you to write data from any OS onto this file type. But you cannot load files larger than 4 GBs in this file format.
REFS: This is the new types amongst all three. REFS (Resilient File System) provides better protection against file corruptions, work faster, and maintains a few more benefits like larger volume sizes and file names than older NTFS. REFS, cannot boot Windows.