Lab 7.5 Installing an IDE PATA/SATA Hard Drive with the



Lab 7.5 Installing an IDE PATA/SATA Hard Drive with theWindows 7 Disk Management Tool, diskpart, and convertObjective: To be able to configure and manage a hard drive using Windows 7 DiskManagement consoleParts: Windows 7 computer with an available PATA connection on the motherboard, anavailable PATA cable connection, or motherboard SATA portProcedure: Complete the following procedure and answer the accompanying questions.Notes: Use proper antistatic and gentle handling procedures when dealing with harddrives.You must be a user who has administrator rights to configure hard drives. If two optical drives are installed, one can be replaced by the new hard drive to perform this lab.Power on the computer and log in.There are several ways to get to the window used to manage hard drives. Practice using both methods. (a) Click the Start button, type compmgmt.msc in the Search box and press enter or (b) in Windows Explorer, right-click Computer and select Manage.In the console tree shown in the left pane, select the Disk Management option. The disks and volumes already installed in the computer display in a graphical manner on the right.Right-click the drive partition labeled C: and select Properties.What type of file system is being used? [ FAT16 | FAT32 | exFAT | NTFS ] What is the total capacity of the drive? What is the amount of free space? Shut down the computer and remove the power cord.Remove the computer cover. If PATA is being used, locate an available IDE PATA port on the motherboard or an available PATA cable connector. If SATA is being used, locate a free SATA port on the motherboard and determine which port this is by looking at motherboard labeling or by using documentation.If PATA is being used, determine whether the other device on the same cable (if installed) uses cable select or master/slave jumpers by removing the drive and examining it. Handle the drive carefully.If a PATA drive is being installed, is there a second device on the same cable?If so, does the device use the cable select, master, or slave jumper? If a SATA drive is being installed, what SATA port will be used for the new drive? If necessary, re-install the PATA drive into the machine and reconnect the power and data cables. On the hard drive given to you by the instructor, if PATA is being used, configure the drive to the appropriate setting: cable select, master, or slave. If SATA is being used, power on the computer, enter Setup, and ensure that the SATA port is enabled. Enable the port if necessary.Mount the hard drive (provided by the instructor or lab assistant).Attach the data cable and attach a power cable.Re-install the power cord and power on the cable.Using previously described procedures, open the Computer Management console. Click the Disk Management option in the left pane. Note that the drive you were given may have been partitioned already and assigned a drive letter. If the drive was already partitioned and a drive letter assigned, right-click the drive, select Delete Volume, and click Yes. If the drive shows the status of Invalid, right-click the drive and select the Convert to basic disk option.Was the drive already partitioned? Was the drive already assigned a drive letter? Right-click the new drive you just installed and select New Simple volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard appears. Click Next.What is the difference between a simple volume and a spanned volume? What is the minimum number of drives required to create a striped volume? Enter a partition size that is less than 32GB and still leaves room on the hard drive.What partition size did you choose? Select a drive letter (normally the next drive letter available and taking note of your options so you can answer the first question) and click Next.How many drive letters are available as an option? What file systems are supported when you use this tool?Are there any file systems supported by Windows 7 that are not shown? If so, what are they?Select the FAT32 option. Assign the volume label as a couple letters from each lab partners’ last names. Note that there is an 11-character maximum for FAT32 partitions and a 32-character maximum for NTFS partitions. Select (enable) the Perform a quick format check box and click Next. Click the Finish button.How can you tell from the information in the window whether a partition is FAT32 or NTFS?Right-click in the unallocated drive space on the drive you just installed and select New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard appears. Click Next. Click Next. Select a partition size less than 32GB, but still live some space on the drive. Click Next.What amount of space did you choose for the logical drive size?Accept the drive letter default assignment and click Next.Change the file system type to FAT32.Make the volume label a unique name.Write the volume label chosen.Select (enable) the Perform a quick format check box. Click Next, review the settings, and click Finish.Right-click the free space for the drive you installed. Using the same process, create a NTFS simple volume (but still leave some space on the drive), add a unique volume label, and perform a quick format.Instructor initials: __________________ You can change a FAT16 or FAT32 partition to the NTFS file system by using the convert command at a command prompt. Once a partition is changed, you cannot go back to a previous file system type. Also, data is preserved (but should be backed up before the conversion, just in case of problems).In the Disk Management console, what disk number is used for the newly installed drive? [ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 ] Write the drive letter of the first FAT32 primary partition on the newly installed drive. Note that this drive letter will be used in the coming steps. Write the volume label used for the first FAT32 partition. This label is case sensitive, so write it carefully. Click the Start button. Locate the Command Prompt menu option. Normally, it is located in Accessories. Right-click the Command Prompt menu option and select Run as administrator. Click Yes.Type convert /? to see a list of options. These options tell you what to type as an option after the convert command.What option is used to run convert in verbose mode? What option is used to convert a volume to the NTFS file system? Type convert x: /fs:ntfs (where x: is the drive letter you wrote in Step 24). For example, if the drive letter written in Step 24 is d:, type convert d: /fs:ntfs. Notice the space between the drive letter and /fs:ntfs. /fs:ntfs is used to convert theexisting file system (FAT16 or FAT32) to NTFS. You are prompted for the volume label for the drive. Enter the volume label you documented in Step 24 and press enter. Do not forget that the volume label is case sensitive. The partition is converted and can never be returned to a previous type of file system such as FAT32 unless the drive is reformatted.Use the same process to convert the second FAT32 partition to NTFS. Look up the volume label and the drive letter before starting.Instructor initials: __________________In the Computer Management—Disk Management window, right-click the last partition on the newly installed hard drive.Select the Shrink Volume option. Reduce the amount of hard drive space and click Shrink.What was the result in the Disk Management console? Right-click the second partition on the newly installed drive. Select Extend Volume. A wizard appears. Click Next. Use the space available on the same drive and click Next and then Finish.What message appeared?According to the information in the dialog box, do you think changing this volume to a dynamic disk will matter? Click No and return to the Disk Management console. Review the disks and determine thedisk number and drive letter of the boot volume.Write the disk number of the boot volume. [ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 ] Write the drive letter of the partition that holds the boot volume.Right-click the second partition of the newly installed drive and select Delete Volume. Click Yes.Partitions can be created from the Disk Management console, and they can also be created using the diskpart command utility. Return to the command prompt. At the command prompt, type diskpart and press enter.How does the prompt change? Type help and press enter. Use the help command to determine what commands are available.What command is used to make a new volume? What command can be used to give a drive partition a drive letter? Type create ? and press enter.What two options can be used with create? Type create partition ? and press enter.What type of partitions can be created?Press the up arrow (*) key once. The same command appears. Backspace and replace the question mark with the word primary so the command reads create partition primary. Press enter.What does the feedback say? What command do you think (based on Help) would be used to select a drive? Type select disk x (where x is the disk number documented in Step 24) and press enter. A prompt says the disk is selected.Retype the create partition primary command or press the * key until that command appears and press e.Look back to the Disk Management console and notice that the part of the drive previously marked as free space is now a partition.At the command prompt, type detail disk and press e to see the partition you just created.Based on the command output, what drive letters are currently used? At the command prompt, type assign and press enter.Look in the Disk Management console window to determine what drive letter was assigned. Write the drive letter. What volume label, if any, was assigned? At the command prompt, type exit and press enter to leave the diskpart utility.Type help at the command prompt and press enter to look for a command to help with the high-level formatting of the drive. The commands scroll too quickly, so type help | more and press enter. (The | keystroke is made by holding down the Shift key and pressing the key above the enter key.) One page at a time is shown. Press the space bar once to see the next page of commands.The next command requires filling in some parameters to perform this step correctly. The parameters are as follows:x:, the drive letter documented in Step 44./v:name where name is a unique volume name with up to 32 characters./fs:ntfs, which tells the system to use the NTFS file system. (Other options could be /fs:fat, /fs:fat32, or /fs:exfat, but this lab is using NTFS.) /q which does a quick format.Type the command format x: /fs:ntfs /v:name /q and press enter. Note that if you get a message that the arguments are not valid, you did not exit the diskpart utility and did not do Steps 45 and 46. Go back and do them. When asked to proceed, press Y and press enter.View the results in the Disk Management console. The last partition should be a partition that has a drive letter, a volume name assigned, and uses the NTFS file system.Using whatever method you would like, copy one file to each of the three partitions you have created. Call the instructor over and show the instructor the three files and the Disk Management console. Do not proceed unless you have these parameters done.Instructor initials: __________________Close the command prompt window.Starting with the partition on the far right in the Disk Management console for the newly installed drive, right-click each partition and delete each volume. Call the instructor over when the drive shows as one block (black) of un-partitioned hard drive space.Instructor initials: __________________ Shut down the computer. Remove the power cord. Remove the data cable from the newly installed hard drive. Remove the power cord from the newly installed hard drive. Remove the hard drive. If necessary, re-install the optical drive, data cable, and power cord. Re-install the computer cover and power cord.Boot the computer. Open Windows Explorer and select Computer. Ensure that the optical drive is recognized. If it is not, redo Step 52.Show the instructor the optical drive in the Computer window and give the hard drive and any cable back to the instructor/lab assistant.Instructor initials: __________________ ................
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