A technician installs Windows 7 on a 4TB hard drive. Which of the following should the technician choose when initializing the drive for the machine to access all the disk space?

The correct answer is D. exFAT. NOTE: The provided answer key lists D (exFAT) as correct, but this appears to be an error. The correct answer is A (GPT). When initializing a disk in Windows Disk Management, the choice is between MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID Partition Table). MBR supports a maximum…

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AGPT
BFAT32
CMBR
DexFAT

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A
3% (1)
B
14% (4)
C
10% (3)
D
72% (21)

Explanation

NOTE: The provided answer key lists D (exFAT) as correct, but this appears to be an error. The correct answer is A (GPT). When initializing a disk in Windows Disk Management, the choice is between MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID Partition Table). MBR supports a maximum of 2.2TB of addressable space, so a 4TB drive initialized as MBR will only show ~2TB. GPT supports drives up to 9.4ZB and is the correct partition style to access the full 4TB. exFAT and FAT32 are file system formats chosen during formatting, not disk initialization-and FAT32 has a 2TB partition limit. For any drive larger than 2TB, GPT is the required initialization choice.

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