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Exercise 9.1: Exploring Windows NTs Disk Administrator
Objective: Explore the options available through Disk Administrator, such as establishing and breaking mirrored drives and creating or regenerating stripe sets with parity.

Estimated time: 10 minutes

To complete exercise 9.1, log on to a Windows NT 4.0 server or workstation with an account that has administrative authority. The server or workstation used can be a production machine—no changes will actually be made to the computer’s configuration during this exercise.
1.Click Start, Programs, Administrative Tools. Then choose Disk Administrator.
2.Observe the Disk Administrator window and maximize it if it is not already in this state. The configuration of the disk or disks on your machine displays.
3.Click on one of the partitions on your screen. A dark black line appears around the partition, indicating that the partition is selected. Right-click on the partition and observe the available menu choices in the context-sensitive menu. Note that you can format the partition, change its logical drive letter, or examine its properties. If the disk is removable, the Eject option is also available.
4.Click on Partition in the Menu bar and examine the choices. Most of the choices are unavailable, but they include Create Volume Set and Create Stripe Set. You also can change your active partition in this Menu bar.
5.Click on Fault Tolerance on the Menu bar (Windows NT Server only) and observe that this menu enables you to establish and break mirrored drives, as well as to create or regenerate stripe sets with parity.
  1. Feel free to explore further, and when you are finished examining the menus and options, close out of the Disk Administrator by clicking Partition, Exit.