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A technician plugs a 16GB jump drive into a Windows PC, and it has multiple smaller partitions that are unwritable. Which of the following single DiskPart commands can be used to restore the drive…
The correct answer is A. extend. The DiskPart 'extend' command expands an existing partition to reclaim adjacent unallocated space, allowing the drive to be used at its full capacity.
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A technician plugs a 16GB jump drive into a Windows PC, and it has multiple smaller partitions that are unwritable. Which of the following single DiskPart commands can be used to restore the drive, allowing it to be formatted to full capacity?
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- Aextend
- Bmerge
- Cclean
- Drepair
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(37 responses)- A84% (31)
- B8% (3)
- C3% (1)
- D5% (2)
Why each option
The DiskPart 'extend' command expands an existing partition to reclaim adjacent unallocated space, allowing the drive to be used at its full capacity.
After selecting the appropriate disk and volume in DiskPart, the 'extend' command expands the selected partition into contiguous unallocated space on the disk, restoring the drive's full usable capacity as a single command without requiring a full wipe and recreate cycle.
DiskPart does not have a 'merge' command; this is not a valid DiskPart operation.
The 'clean' command removes all partition and volume information from the selected disk, destroying all data but still requiring additional steps (create partition, format) before the drive is usable - it does not restore the drive to a ready-to-use state by itself.
DiskPart does not have a 'repair' command for partition recovery; disk repair operations are handled by separate tools such as chkdsk.
Concept tested: DiskPart extend command for partition restoration
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/extend
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