LO2: Install, Optimise and Upgrade Current Operating Systems

Table of Contents

1. PC Developments
2. Operating System Interfaces
3. Windows Utilities
4. Disks and Files
   1. Hard Disk Capacity
   2. Partitions
   3. FDISK
   4. Partition Example
   5. Activity 2.12
5. Files and Folders
6. Installing Windows
7. Installing Windows XP Professional
8. Installing Windows XP Steps

Disks and Files

An important function of an operating system is the creating, viewing and managing of disks, directories and files.

We have already explained the different file systems based on FAT and NTFS that are used on hard drives. No matter what file system we are going to use the hard drive has to be configured to accept the file system to be used.

Next: Hard Disk Capacity