Test your knowledge of hard drives.
Poor hard drive cable connection
Insufficient memory
Bad/missing hard drive or drive controller
Wrong jumper settings on drive(s)
Incorrectly configured CMOS settings.
8 megabytes of cache
One extended partition
4200 RPM
One partition
One master boot record
Clustering
Formatting
Sectioning
Fragmenting
Partitioning
Groups of cylinders
Partitions
Master boot records
Usually assigned a drive letter
Groups of folders
Increase disk space
Install multiple operating systems on it
Proceed with formatting
Share drive letters
Encrypt files
The master boot record
Speadsheets
A copy of system BIOS
Games
The partition table
First sector
Second sector
Last sector
In the cache
The file allocation table
The first partition
Cylinder 0
The boot sector
The partition table
The stripe
A disk with standard features only
A disk with a MBR
A single hard drive
A partitioning scheme
A FAT32 formatted drive
A resizeable partition
A constantly changing partition
An advanced partitioning scheme proprietary to Microsoft
A drive containing multiple MBR's
A drive with more than one installation of Windows
2
3
4
64
Unlimited
Primary and secondary partitions
Two primary partitions and two extended partitions
Unlimited partitions
Up to four primary partitions
Three primary partitions and one extended partition
Are labeled
Are bootable
Are not bootable
Are limited to twice the size of primary partitions
Contain logical drives
An operating system
An entry in the partition table
Logical drives
A corresponding extended partition
A unique identifier such as a drive letter or folder
The master boot record and file allocation table
The master boot record and partition table
BIOS and file allocation table
The partition table and file allocation table
Boot.ini
1
2
3
4
True
False
True
False
A gimbal
A bearing
A cushion of air
A film of oil
A magnetic field
Pits and lands
Electric charges
Magnetic fields
Flux reversals
Cells
Clusters
Sectors
Spans
Domains
Runs
RLL version 1, release 7
The drive needs reformatting
Minimum and maximum run lengths
Cylinder 1, sector 7
Data encoding
Parallel communication standard
RLL
Disk encryption
Vertical recording
Ultra high density modulation
Flux run unlimited
Perpendicular recording
ANSI 2381.5