A customer purchased a 3TB HDD to use with a Windows 7 PC and wants to have letter 'J' assigned only to the drive.
Which of the following types of partitioning should be performed to give the customer full use of the 3 TB drive?
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A. B. C. D.A.
The correct answer is A. GPT.
Explanation:
In order to use a 3TB hard drive in Windows 7 and assign a specific letter to it, we need to use a partitioning scheme that supports large drives and allows more than four partitions. The MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, which is used on older versions of Windows, is limited to a maximum disk size of 2TB and can only support up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition.
The GPT (GUID Partition Table) partitioning scheme, on the other hand, can support disks larger than 2TB and can accommodate up to 128 partitions. GPT is the recommended partitioning scheme for newer computers and operating systems that support it.
Therefore, to give the customer full use of the 3TB drive and assign a specific letter to it, we need to perform a GPT partitioning scheme on the drive. This will allow us to create a partition of the desired size and assign the letter J to it.
Option A, GPT, is the correct answer. Options B, C, and D are not valid partitioning schemes that support large drives and multiple partitions like GPT does. Dynamic disks (option B) are used to create fault-tolerant volumes such as mirrored or striped volumes. Basic disks (option C) are used for non-fault-tolerant volumes, but they are limited to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. Extended partitions (option D) can be used to create logical partitions within a primary partition, but they do not support disks larger than 2TB.