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SCC CIS 29 INSTRUCTOR: PAUL BRYANT SPRING 2000
Name: _____________________ Date Turned In: ____________________
REVIEW QUESTIONS Chapter 7 Hard Drive Installation and Support
1. When two hard drives are connected to the same data cable, how does BIOS know which is the master and which is the slave drive?
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2. If a system board has two EIDE connections, how many IDE devices can the system support?
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3. If a hard drive is too small to physically fit snuggly into the drive bay, what can you do?
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4. What is the purpose of the hard drive light on the front of a computer case?
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5. How can you tell which side of a hard drive's data cable connects to pin 1 on the drive.
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6. What are large-capacity drives? What are two methods that BIOS can use to support them?
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7. What are the two limitations in standards that caused older BIOSs to not support drives larger than 528 MB?
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8. How can you tell if your system board chip set supports Ultra DMA mode?
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9. What OS utility is used to partition a hard drive?
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10. How can you tell how many partitions a hard drive has been set up to have?
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11. For a hard drive, describe the difference between a master boot record and a OS boot record.
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12. Where on a hard drive is the information about the number and sizes of partitions stored?
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13. What is the minimum number of partitions you can use for a 3-GB hard drive in a Windows 98 environment using FAT 16? Why?
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14. In Question 13 above, if you want to use only a single partition for the entire drive, what can you do?
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15. When running FDISK under Windows 98, if you answer positively to the question, "Enable large disk support?" what does FDISK then do?
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16. What is the cluster size for a 1.5-GB partition using FAT16? Using FAT32?
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17. When would you be required to use FAT 16 instead of FAT32 to partition a drive?
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18. If a hard drive is using FAT 16, what value is put in the FAT entry to indicate that the cluster is bad?
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19. What is the difference between a bad cluster and a lost cluster?
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20. What could cause a lost cluster?
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21. What condition might prevent a deleted file from being undeleted?
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22. Before you call the manufacturer's technical support for a hard drive during installation, what should you have in hand?
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23. When you are installing a SCSI drive and an IDE drive on the same system, under what circumstances can the SCSI drive be the boot device?
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24. In a dual boot situation between Windows 98 and DOS 6, when Windows 98 boots, what does it do with the DOS 6 system files?
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25. Name two third-party utility software applications that can be used to manage and maintain hard drives.
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26. What is one way that you can make a backup of partition information on a hard drive?
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27. How can you tell if your hard drive is using normal, LBA, or large mode?
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28. How can you unerase a file in Windows 98?
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29. List three components to check or examine if a hard drive does not boot.
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30. What is the one most important thing you can do to protect your data on a hard drive?
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