Chapter 17 - Disk and File System Basics

This chapter describes the organization, contents, and purpose of the information on hard disks. It contains information on the following topics:

• Disk basics.

• Volumes, partitions, volume sets, and stripe sets.

• File systems supported by Windows NT.

• Creating and formatting partitions.

• Master Boot Record.

• Partition Boot Sector.

• Using hard disks with more than 1024 cylinders.

• Using removable disks and floppy disks.