BUA 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Extended File System, Disk Cleanup, Hard Disk Drive
16 May 2019
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Airplane mode: disables or turns off all network adapters. Energy star: rating system that recognizes devices that use an average of 20 to 30 percent less energy than comparable devices. Location services: determines your location by using gps or wireless networks. Safe mode: special diagnostic mode that starts windows without most device drivers for troubleshooting the system. Disk formatting: prepares a disk to hold files and consists of two steps: low-level formatting and high-level formatting. Sectors: disk divided up into wedge-shaped pieces. Clusters: files saved to disk stored in groups of sectors. File system: keeps track of what you saved and where you saved it. Ntfs (new technology file system): file system used on hard disks. Fat file system (file allocation table): external disks or older versions of windows. Hfs plus/hfs+ (hierarchical file system): mac os extended file system. Disk-checking utilities: monitors the health of the file system on a disk.
