1: Managing Hard Disk Subsystems

Table of Contents

1. Managing Disk Storage
2. Creating and Formatting a Partition
3. Viewing and Updating Disk Properties
4. Configuring Storage
5. Mounting and Dismounting Volumes
6. Converting a Disk from Basic to Dynamic
7. Monitoring Server Hardware
8. Device Manager
9. Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard
10. Optimising Disk Performance
11. RAID-0 Volumes
12. RAID-1 and RAID-5
13. Defragmentation
14. Optimisation SAQs
15. Installing Hardware Devices
16. Device Drivers
17. Device Driver SAQs
18. Device Properties and Settings
19. Driver Upgrades
20. Driver Rollback
21. Driver Signing
22. Control Panel Items

Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard

The Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard allows convenient troubleshooting through the Device Manager interface. By clicking the Troubleshoot button on the General tab for a device, you will be walked through a series of pages to help resolve the problem.

Windows Server 2003 offers a series of Troubleshooters, which ask for details on the symptoms, suggest resolutions and link to additional information on the problem. There are 17 built-in troubleshooters, covering the following areas:

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