As long as you use the FAT file system, Windows XP Professional and Home editions, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 9x, and MS-DOS operating systems all can access Basic disks. Basic DisksĪ Windows XP Basic disk, similar to the disk configuration under earlier versions of Windows, is a physical disk with primary and extended partitions. For desktop support technicians who are familiar with Windows NT 4, Windows XP Professional introduces some new concepts, such as Basic and Dynamic disk storage. If you are familiar with managing and troubleshooting hard disks and volumes under Windows 2000, you'll be comfortable working with disk-storage administration in Windows XP. In this chapter, we cover how to support and troubleshoot hard disks and explore available options under Windows XP for creating partitions, formatting drive volumes, and managing disk administration. However, the storage options supported in Windows XP combine a lot of the old and a bit of the new in terms of things Windows XP can do.ĭisk storage is more than about finding lost files. Troubleshooting disk drives, CD-ROM, and Universal Serial Bus (USB)based storage.įor a desktop support technician, the number of distress calls from wayward users who have lost their files can be daunting. Using diskpart.exe to manage disk drives and volumes from the command lineĬreating simple, spanned, and striped volumesĬonverting from Basic to Dynamic disks and back again Using convert.exe to convert a File Allocation Table (FAT) volume to NTFS Selecting a file system for Windows XP Professional
Using the Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup Wizard Monitoring and troubleshooting disks using the Performance console MCDST 70-271 Exam Cram 2: Supporting Users & Troubleshooting a Windows XP Operating System
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