LAB 6

WORKSHEET
WORKING WITH DISKS

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 6.1 Creating a Simple Volume

Exercise 6.2 Extending a Volume

Exercise 6.3 Creating Additional Volumes

Exercise 6.4 Mounting a Volume

Exercise 6.5 Removing Volumes

Exercise 6.6 Creating a Spanned Volume

Lab Review Questions

Lab Challenge Creating a Striped Volume

Workstation Reset Returning to Baseline

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Exercise 6.1 Creating a Simple Volume

Overview Thanks to your instruction, Karen now sees the advantage of storing the
department’s data files on a volume separate from the operating system and
application files. In this exercise, you create a new simple volume on the
server where the accountants can store their data.
Completion time 10 minutes

Table 6-1
Disk Information
Disk 1
Basic
Disk type (basic or dynamic)
9.81 GB
Total disk size
1 NTFS partition
Number and type of partitions
1.71GB
Amount of unallocated space
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13. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the
volume you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the
lab06_worksheet file in the page provided.
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Exercise 6.2 Extending a Volume

Overview A few days later, you receive another call from Karen. She has been
diligently moving the department’s data files to the volume you created for
her, but she has now run out of disk space. The volume was not big enough!
To address the problem, you decide to extend the Karen1 volume by using
some of the unallocated space left on the disk. For this task, you intend to
use the Diskpart.exe command line utility.
Completion time 15 minutes

What is the result?

Question
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The Folder can’t be located.

Table 6-2
Unallocated Space Remaining
Disk 1

Unallocated space left (gigabytes)

757 MB
Unallocated space left (megabytes)

What is the number of the 1-GB partition you created earlier

Question in this exercise?
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Partition Number 3.

What is the result?

Question
3
Diskpart Successfully extended the partition
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14. Press Ctrl+P

rt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the extended volume,
and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the lab06_worksheet file in the page
provided.
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What is the result?

Question
4 I can access the Server DC but I still do not see any intall
folder.

Exercise 6.3 Creating Additional Volumes

Overview Karen is thrilled at the idea of storing her department’s data files in separate
volumes, and now she wants you to create more partitions on her server.
However, you used all of the available space to create her Karen1 volume.
Therefore, you have to shrink the Karen1 volume to create room for the
additional volumes she wants.
Completion time 10 minutes

How much available shrink space is contained in the volume?

Question
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549MB

How is the last volume you created different from the

previous ones? Explain why.
Question
6
The size of the volume is different. By shrinking the file it
made the volumes less than 2000MB

What do you suppose would happen if you created another

Question simple volume out of the free space left on the disk?
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I think that the it will run out of resourse.
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7. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the
volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the
lab06_worksheet file in the page provided.
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Exercise 6.4 Mounting a Volume

Overview Karen calls yet again to tell you that she needs still more space on her
Karen1 volume, but is unable to expand it. You decide to provide her with
additional space by creating a volume and mounting it in a folder on the
Karen1 volume.
Completion time 15 minutes

Were you successful?

Question
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No, The extend option is grayed out.

What is the result?

Question
9
It was successful
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13. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the
volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the
lab06_worksheet file in the page provided.
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Table 6-3
Karen1 (S:) Properties
Megabytes Gigabytes
14,192, 640 bytes
Used space
89,612,299 bytes
Free space
103,804,928
Capacity

Does the capacity of the S: drive reflect the addition of the

Question mounted Karen4 volume?
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Yes, The capacity of Karen 4 is S.

According to the status bar, how much free space is on the

Question Karen4 volume?
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According to my volume on my V.PC it is 85.4MB

Does the free space on Karen4 reflect the space available on

Question the Karen1 volume as well?
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No, It is its own Partition and has no effect on others.
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Exercise 6.5 Removing Volumes

Overview The Accounting department server currently has five volumes on its disk:
three primary partitions and one extended partition with two logical drives.
Karen and her staff have found it difficult to manage their files with so
many volumes, so she wants to consolidate the disk into just two volumes:
her original volume, plus one large data volume, which will be a spanned
volume that uses all of the available space on Disk 0 plus all of the space on
the second hard disk in the computer.
Completion time 10 minutes

Why doesn’t the disk space used by the Karen3 and Karen4
volumes appear in the Disk Management snap-in as
Question unallocated?
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Because the space has already been shrunk, so not it is
just Free space of Disk 0.

What is the maximum amount of space that you can use to

extend the Karen1 volume?
Question
14 301 MB

Why can’t you extend the Karen1 volume by using all of the
remaining space on the disk?
Question
15
Because you can only extend space that is available on a
logical drive.
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Workstation Reset: Returning to Baseline

Completion time 10 minutes

To return the computer to its baseline state, complete the following procedure.

1. Open the Disk Management snap-in.

2. Delete all of the volumes on both disks except for the original C: volume that contains the
operating system.