MCTSGuidetoMicrosoftWindows71章节.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Deleting Partitions and Volumes Use the Disk Management MMC console or the DiskPart command-line utility Requires Administrator-equivalent user account Deleting a volume or partition results in data loss Extended partitions cannot be deleted unless all of the logical partitions they contain are deleted first MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows 7 * Extending Partitions and Volumes Use the Disk Management MMC console or the DiskPart command-line utility Requires an Administrator-equivalent user account Extending Basic Disk Partitions Extended partitions cannot be further extended MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows 7 * Extending Partitions and Volumes (contd.) Extending Basic Disk Partitions (contd.) Considerations System and boot partitions can be expanded Free space must be: Available that is not assigned to another partition Contiguous with the partition being expanded Partition being expanded must have either no file system or NTFS Partition expansion is immediate; no reboot needed Extending Dynamic Disk Volumes Not all dynamic volumes can be extended MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows 7 * Extending Partitions and Volumes (contd.) Extending Dynamic Disk Volumes (contd.) Considerations System and boot volume can be expanded Simple volume can be extended using any free disk space on the same physical disk Free disk space used to extend a simple volume does not have to be contiguous If a simple volume is extended with free space from another physical disk, it becomes a spanned volume Spanned volume cannot be used to create a larger striped or fault-tolerant volume Volume expansion is immediate; no reboot needed MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows 7 * Shrinking Partitions and Volumes Use the Disk Management snap-in or the DiskPart command-line utility Requires an Administrator-equivalent user account MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows 7 * Shrinking Partitions and Volumes (contd.) Rules Free space must exist