This contains the operating system files. There can be up to four per hard drive and cannot be subdivided into smaller sections.

• Primary Partition

• Active Partition

• Extended Partition

• Logical Drive

A section of an extended partition.

• Primary Partition

• Active Partition

• Extended Partition

• Logical Drive

Used to boot the computer and contains the boot and system files. There can be only on of these per disk.

• Primary Partition

• Active Partition

• Extended Partition

• Logical Drive

There can be only one per hard drive, but it can be subdivided into smaller sections.

• Primary Partition

• Active Partition

• Extended Partition

• Logical Drive

__________ is the process that prepares a file system in a partition for files to be stored.

Has the ability to create volumes that span across more than one disk. The size of the volumes can be changed after they have been created.

• Dynamic Disk

• Basic Disk

Contains primary and extended partitions, as well as logical drives, It is limited to four partitions.

• Dynamic Disk

• Basic Disk

A diagnostic mode used to troubleshoot Windows and Windows startup issues.

• Safe Mode

• Last Known Good

• BIOS

• Boot device priority

Loads the configuration settings that were used the last time that Windows started successfully.

• Safe Mode

• Last Known Good

• BIOS

• Boot device priority

Locates and reads the configuration settings that are stored in the CMOS memory.

• Safe Mode

• Last Known Good

• BIOS

• Boot device priority