Activity $4-1$ Working with Disk Management in Windows

In this activity, you explore the Windows Disk Management tool. You may have to research how to do some of the tasks. Once you are finished, you will answer some questions. You will need a second disk of at least $20$ GB installed on your Windows computer.

If your Windows computer is not already equipped with a second disk, install one of at least $20$ GB on your Windows computer. If you are using VMs$,$ you can add a disk while Windows is still running.

Delete any existing partitions from the new disk, if necessary.

$1.$

What type of disk is it: basic or dynamic?

Create a new $3$ GB volume named Vol$1$ and format it using a file system that supports file and folder permissions. Use the default drive letter.

$2.$

What format did you choose?

$3.$

What type of partition was created $($primary$,$ extended, logical drive$)?$

Create three additional volumes of $3$ GB each named Vol$2,$ Vol$3,$ and Vol$4.$ Accept the default options each time.

$4.$

For each partition, what was the partition type you created?

$5.$

Explain what happened when you created the fourth volume.

Convert the disk to a dynamic disk. $($Convert only the new disk you installed; do not convert Disk $0,$ which is the Windows boot disk.$)$

$6.$

How did this change the way the volumes and partitions are labeled?

Close Disk Management.