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You are the IT administrator for a small corporate network. The computer in Office 1 needs additional hard drive space. You have two hard drives available. You need to install the hard drives and create volumes on those hard drives so that they can be used to store data. In this lab, your task is to complete the following: Install two SATA hard drives in the computer. Initialize both disks using the MBR partition style. Create a volume on Disk 1 with the following properties: Volume size: 300000 MB Drive letter: E: File system: NTFS Volume label: Data Create a second volume using the remaining space on Disk 1 and all of the space on Disk 2 as follows: Drive letter: S: File system: NTFS Volume label: Art

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Answer: See below

Step-by-step explanation:

-Install two SATA hard drives in the computer.

-Initialize both disks using the MBR partition style.

-Create a volume on Disk 1 with the following properties:

-Volume size: 300000 MB

-Drive letter: E:File system: NTFS

-Volume label: Data

-Create a second volume using the remaining space on Disk 1 and all of the space on Disk 2 as follows:

-Drive letter: S:File system: NTFS

-Volume label: Art

Install two SATA hard drives as follows:

-Above the computer, select Motherboard to switch to the motherboard view.

-Click Yes to power off the system.

On the Shelf, expand Hard Drives.

-Drag a hard drive to a free 3.5" drive bay.

-Drag a second hard drive to a free 3.5" drive bay.

-On the Shelf, expand Cables.

-Select a SATA cable.

-Under Selected Component, drag a connector to the hard drive.

-Under Selected Component, drag the other connector to the motherboard SATA connector to connect the hard drive to the motherboard.

-Repeat step 1g-1i to connect the second hard drive to the motherboard.

-Under Partial Connections above the computer, select the power supply.

-Under Selected Component, drag a SATA power connector to a hard drive to provide power to the hard drive.

-Under Selected Component, drag a SATA power connector to the second hard drive.

-Initialize both disks using the MBR partition style as follows:

-Above the computer, select Front to switch to the front view of the computer.

-Click the power button on the computer to turn the computer on.

-After Windows loads, right-click Start and select Disk Management.

-Make sure MBR is selected as the partition style.

-Select OK to initialize all disks.

-Maximize the Disk Management window for easier viewing.

Create the Data volume as follows:

-Right-click the unallocated space on Disk 1 and select New Simple Volume.

-Click Next.

-In the Simple volume size in MB field, enter 300000 MB; then click Next.

-From the Assign the following drive letter drop-down list, select E.

-Click Next.

-Make sure NTFS is selected as the file system.

-In the Volume label, enter Data.

-Click Next.

-Click Finish.

Create the Art volume as follows:

-Rght-click unallocated space on one of the disks and select New Spanned Volume.

-Click Next.

-Under Available, select the disk.

-Select Add.

-Click Next.

-From the Assign the following drive letter drop-down list, select S.

-Click Next.

-Make sure NTFS is selected as the file system.

-In the Volume label, enter Art.

-Click Next.

-Click Finish.

-Click Yes to upgrade the disks to dynamic disks because spanned volumes can only be created on dynamic disks.

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