This type of installation is typically a complete copy of another computer that can be accessed individually or on an image server

In a __________ system there is more than one OS and it can be any combination of Linux, Windows & Apple

Mrs. Stafford was tasked to install Windows 11 with 5 additional applications on 50 new identical laptops. She decides that it would be best to make a complete copy of another computer (snapshot) that she would like the rest of the laptops to be.

What method would be best to do this?

Method an OS uses to store, organize, retrieve and manage files and directories on a storage device. It's like a table of contents!

A new disk will typically need to be _________ before it can prepared for use by an operating system.

_________ prepares a partition to install a File System onto the drive. Becareful! This will also wipe any data from the drive.

With this type of installation, you will need to backup and restore EVERYTHING

Mrs. Stafford bought a new SD card that is 16 GB in size.  She plans to store various files such as word documents, text files and small images like animated kitten fail .gifs.  What would be the best choice of file system to format the card to?

A file system will provide ______ which is a list of files on the drive and their location.

Supports up to 4 primary partitions—But if you need more, then you can make one of the primary partitions as an “extended partition” and create many logical partitions inside of the extended partition

Bonus:

What is the name of my dog and is also a utility used to create bootable drives?

The number of partitions is only limited by the operating system installed on the storage drive. For example, Windows will allow up to 128 partitions!

Scout has a storage drive with 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. What would be the most likely partition style for this drive?

__________ creates an empty file system of chosen type on the device.

Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT) are both

BONUS:

Carter wants to set up his PC to dual boot with two operating systems, Windows 10 and some flavor of Linux.  What operating system should be installed first?

This type of installation will utilize scripts to automate all the bits and pieces (Look ma! No hands!)

Partition Types: (not partition styles/schemes)

Supports bootable operating system, assigned a drive letter & appears in File Explorer. Can have multiples of this type of partition. For example, MBR can have up to 4 of these.

Tucker has a 6TB storage drive that he wants to format and install Windows 7. He double checked that his version of Windows 7 is 64 bit.  What would be the best choice of partitioning style?

Partition Types: (not partition styles/schemes)

This partition type is not bootable but is utilized to create more partitions within it for the MBR Partitioning Scheme.

This type of installation will Install on top of an earlier version and will inherit previous hardware & software settings

Partition Types: (not partition styles/schemes)

This partition type is not viewable in File Explorer, contains system recovery tools to restore the system to factory state.

Older standard partitioning scheme & associated with Legacy BIOS

Partition Types: (not partition styles/schemes)

This partition type is typically applied to multiple disks arranged in a RAID system.

Requires newer hardware or OS (UEFI, 64 bit hardware)

Bonus!

Back in my day, the internet used to sound like this: ERRRR-WEEEE-KSSSHHH-CRKKKK-SZZZZZ-TSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH shhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*

What type of internet did I have?

__________ is subdividing a physical drive into one or more units. This lets the OS know how the data on the storage drive is arranged.

BONUS:

In MS windows, a newly added drive is by default partitioned as what type of disk?

True or False: MBR partition scheme is best suited to UEFI

This file system is the standard for storage options where the capacity is larger than 32 GB

Great for any file larger than 2TB (SD card in camera)

This file system is an Apple proprietary and can read/write to FAT32 & exFAT

This file system is typically used with Linux distros and is backwards compatible with its older/previous versions.

True or False: GPT partition scheme is best suited to Legacy BIOS

New standard that’s associated with UEFI

This file system is the official format for SD cards, often used for USB drives. It has a max file size is 4GB or less and a drive capacity of 32 GB or less.

BONUS:

What is recommended for how often you should clean out your PC?

BONUS:

True or False: The build up of dust can cause lag and crashing and maybe even random shutdowns when using your PC.

Logan is restoring data to a drive with twelve separate partitions. What would be the MOST likely partition style on this drive?

Jackson wants to install Mint Linux over Windows 10 that is currently running on a 4TB storage drive.   The firmware interface of his motherboard is Legacy.  He refuses to go into the BIOS settings to confirm but what partitioning scheme should Jackson most likely choose?

True or False:  You can boot an operating system from an extended partition?

This type of installation will completely replace an existing installation & any problems associated with that operating system but will not retain any application or files from the original computer.

Mrs. Stafford wants to format a new drive. All she knows is that the firmware interface is UEFI and the storage drive is 1 TB. What would be the best partitioning scheme?