Lab 5-7 Installing a Second Hard Drive

Objective

You must format a hard drive to install a file system. In this lab exercise you will learn how to properly install and optimize the FAT file system.

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Format a partition.
• Use the SCANDISK utility to optimize performance.
• Use the DEFRAG utility to optimize performance.

Materials Required

• Operating system: Windows of some flavor
• Lab workgroup size: 2 students
• You MUST do this on your LAB computer (not the classroom DELLs. We never open those.)

Lab Setup & Safety Tips

• Each workstation’s hard drive should contain one unformatted primary partition that has been set as active during lab 6-1.
• Be sure that the data stored on your lab workstation has been backed up before you proceed with this lab exercise.

1. Power off your lab workstation.
2. Install a second hard drive that does not have anyone else’s OS on it! You want a plain drive. Get it from me.
3. Be sure that second drive is mounting in your CMOS.
4. Show me ____________________________ ______
5. Go into your host OS and right click on My Computer and select manage.
6. Go to Disk Management. You should see your new blank hard drive.
1. Right click on your computer
2. Select “Manage”
3. Click Disk Management
4. You should see Disk 0 (your boot disk) and Disk 1 (as well as your CD ROM) If you do not see two disks plus CD, shut down and make sure everything is attached.
5. Right click on the disk 1 and format it. Format as a Standard Disk.
6. Go into “my computer” and look to see if it is there. Show me so I can check it off on the checkoff sheet.
7. Once you have done that, shut down, ground yourself and remove that hard disk and check it back into me.

Do this next section using the VIRTUAL hard disk you created.

7. Go into DOS on your virtual PC.
8. Power on your lab workstation and allow it to boot from your DOS boot disk.
9. At the A prompt, type FORMAT driveletterofnewdrive (probably D:/ or E:/)
10. When asked to confirm before proceeding, type Y and press Enter. The format command begins to format drive C.
11. When formatting is completed, type a volume label of DRIVE 1.

aking drive bootable

You can use many different commands to make a drive bootable. Following are two examples of command sequences:

Using the SYS command

1. Power off your lab workstation.
2. Insert the boot disk into drive A.
3. Power on your lab workstation and allow it to boot from your DOS boot disk.
4. At the A prompt, type SYS A: driveletter: and press Enter.

Using the Format command

The /S switch tells DOS to add system information to the drive after it has been formatted. Use the /? option to view other FORMAT switches.

1. Power off your lab workstation.
2. Insert the boot disk into drive A.
3. Power on your lab workstation and allow it to boot from your DOS boot disk.
4. At the A prompt, type FORMAT driveletter: /S.
5. When asked to confirm before proceeding, type Y and press Enter.
6. When formatting is completed, type a volume label of DRIVE 1.

Go into your Windows 7 and make sure you can see the virtual hard disk you created.

1. Locate the drive in My Computer.
2. Right click on the drive.
3. Click propertiesàTools.
4. Under Error-Checking click “check now”.
5. This runs the Scandisk tool.

Using the DEFRAG utility

1. In your start menu find the command prompt.
2. Right click and run as administrator. Defrag requires you to have admin access.
3. At the prompt, type DEFRAG and press Enter.
4. Write down the switches that work with defrag

5. Run “analyze only”.
6. Allow DEFRAG to reorganize the hard drive (this should happen quickly if the drive was formatted recently).
7. When the defragmentation is completed, exit the DEFRAG utility AFTER having me check it off.

1. Right click on your computeràManageàDisk Management

2. Right click on one of the hard drives

3. Defragment

4. Show me

In Windows 98

1. You’re going to run Scandisk. Scandisk will test your hard drive for errors.

2. StartàProgramsàAccessoriesàSystem toolsàScandisk

3. Do the throurough test.

4. Have me check you off.

You will be required to do all of these things on your lab test. ALL OF THEM!

Review Questions

Circle True or False.

1. Using the SCANDISK utility will delete all files less than 512 K in size. True / False
2. The DEFRAG utility places file clusters in consecutive order. True / False
3. You should run the SCANDISK utility only once every three months. True / False

4. Describe the functionality of the DEFRAG utility.

5. You are currently employed as a PC desktop support technician at My World. One of your customers, Jamie, calls to tell you that her computer is running more slowly than it did last month. List two utilities that Jamie might use to improve the performance of her computer.

6. John is currently running DEFRAG, and it is taking a long time. John called you to ask what the DEFRAG program does, and why it seems to be so slow. Over the last year John has never run the DEFRAG utility. Describe to John both the purpose of the DEFRAG utility and explain why it is taking so long to run.