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…

The correct answer is A. GPT. GPT (GUID Partition Table) is required to fully utilize drives larger than 2TB. The legacy MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, used by Basic and Extended partition types, can only address up to 2TB due to its 32-bit addressing limitation. A 3TB drive formatted with…

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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?

Options

AGPT
BDynamic
CBasic
DExtended

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A
86% (51)
B
3% (2)
C
7% (4)
D
3% (2)

Explanation

GPT (GUID Partition Table) is required to fully utilize drives larger than 2TB. The legacy MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, used by Basic and Extended partition types, can only address up to 2TB due to its 32-bit addressing limitation. A 3TB drive formatted with MBR will only expose approximately 2TB, wasting roughly 1TB. GPT supports drives up to 9.4 ZB and allows up to 128 partitions on Windows, making it the correct choice for full use of a 3TB drive. Dynamic partitioning refers to volume management features, not a solution to the addressing limit.

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