Unit 5

You will know how to…

Hard drive technology

Hard drive technology

Hard drive technology

Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) technology

Hardware subsystem with an IDE hard drive

Tracks and sectors on MFM and RLL technologies

Tracks and sectors on an IDE drive

Zone Bit recording

SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) technology

SCSI technology

Differing SCSI standards

Summary of different SCSI standards

Sample configuration of a SCSI subsystem

Other variations of SCSI hardware and software

SCSI subsystem

SCSI cables and terminators

How a hard drive is logically organized to hold data

Hard drive partitions

Hard drive partition table

Logical drives

Logical drive

Boot record

Boot record

The FAT and the Root directory

The FAT and the Root directory

The FAT and the Root directory

The FAT and the Root directory

Operating System commands to manage a hard drive

DOS commands to manage a hard drive

MKDIR or MD command

DIR command

DOS commands to manage a hard drive

DOS commands to manage a hard drive

Using Windows 3.x to manage a hard drive

File menu in File Manager

Creating a directory in Windows 3x

Creating a directory in Windows 3x

Deleting a directory in Windows 3x

Windows 3x file properties

Using Windows 9x to manage a hard drive

Creating a new folder in Windows 9x

Creating a new folder in Windows 9x

Deleting a folder in
Windows 9x

Windows 9x file properties

Optimizing a hard drive

Fragmentation

Windows 98 Defragmenter utility

Disk Defragmenter results

Cross-linked and lost clusters

Cross-linked and lost clusters

SCANDISK Command for DOS

ScanDisk reports errors

ScanDisk results

Disk compression

Parts of a compressed drive

Disk compression in
Windows 9x

Disk caching

Disk caching

Disk caching

DOS commands to avoid with Windows 9x

DOS commands to avoid with Windows 9x

Unit Summary