Partition - ANSWERSA _____ is a logical division of the storage space on a hard disk drive. _____s are
identified by 16-bit entries that make up the _____ table located in the master boot record (MBR) of that
drive. A hard disk can contain a single _____ that encompasses the entire drive or multiple _____s that
divide up the storage space on the hard disk drive.
Basic - ANSWERS_____ disks have:
+_____ disks use primary and extended partitions.
=Each physical disk can have up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended
partition.
=Logical drives are defined within an extended partition. You can have up to 24 logical partitions on an
extended partition. The extended partition can be divided into multiple logical drives.
+You must create a logical drive in an extended partition before you can format and store data (the
logical drive, not the partition is the storage unit).
+_____ disks are supported by all operating systems.
+A _____ disk only supports volumes made up of contiguous disk space.
+_____ disks store partition information in a portion of the master boot record (MBR) known as the
partition table.
=The partition table has room for up to four partition entries (hence the limitation on the number of
primary partitions).
=When an extended partition is used, one of the four entries points to an extended boot record (EBR).
The EBR is located within the extended partition and contains information about the logical drives within
the extended partition.
Dynamic - ANSWERS_____ disks have:
+Volumes on _____ disks are like partitions and logical drives on basic disks.
+_____ disks support up to 128 volumes.
+_____ disks support volumes that use discontiguous disk space.
=Simple volumes contain disk space from a single hard disk (either contiguous or discontiguous space).
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