A systems administrator attempts to configure six partitions on a single 2TB disk drive but receives an error message: Error - Disk already contains the maximum number of partitions. Which of the…

The correct answer is E. Converting the drive to GPT. Converting the drive to GPT: The issue is most likely due to the disk being formatted with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, which supports only up to four primary partitions. Converting the drive to GPT (GUID Partition Table) allows for more partitions (up to…

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Question

A systems administrator attempts to configure six partitions on a single 2TB disk drive but receives an error message:

Error - Disk already contains the maximum number of partitions. Which of the following solutions will best correct this issue?

Options

AUpgrading to a 4TB SSD
BAdding another 2TB disk drive and configuring RAID 1
CApplying firmware updates to the system
DFreeing up space on the drive
EConverting the drive to GPT

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A
3% (1)
B
14% (5)
C
3% (1)
D
6% (2)
E
74% (26)

Explanation

Converting the drive to GPT: The issue is most likely due to the disk being formatted with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, which supports only up to four primary partitions. Converting the drive to GPT (GUID Partition Table) allows for more partitions (up to 128), solving

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#Disk partitioning#MBR/GPT#Storage management#Server storage

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