Summary
This chapter covered a lot of territory, and although it may at first seem like a lot information to absorb, keep in mind that most of you will be using Windows XP on a desktop system and not a high-end workstation. In that case, using a single, basic disk and creating the partitions you want will be more than sufficient for your needs.
However, if you want to operate your computer more like a server computer or you use high-end workstations that do things like animation, then you may want to create larger disk volumes. Network administrators may want to provide some fault-tolerant disk systems, such as RAID-5 on the computer. As you have learned in this chapter, the Disk Management utility and the DISKPART commands enable you to configure ...
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