A technician installed a new 4TB hard drive in a Windows server. Which of the following should the technician perform first to provision the new drive?

The correct answer is D. Partition the drive using GPT. GPT (GUID Partition Table) is a partitioning scheme that allows creating partitions on large hard drives (more than 2 TB). It supports up to 128 partitions per drive and uses 64-bit addresses to locate them. MBR (Master Boot Record) is an older partitioning scheme that has…

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Options

AConfigure the drive as a basic disk.
BConfigure the drive as a dynamic disk.
CPartition the drive using MBR.
DPartition the drive using GPT.

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C
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D
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Explanation

GPT (GUID Partition Table) is a partitioning scheme that allows creating partitions on large hard drives (more than 2 TB). It supports up to 128 partitions per drive and uses 64-bit addresses to locate them. MBR (Master Boot Record) is an older partitioning scheme that has limitations on the size and number of partitions (up to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended partition per drive). To provision a new 4 TB drive, the technician should partition it using GPT.

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#Disk partitioning#GPT#Server storage#Drive initialization

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