MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

Lesson 1 Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes
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5. On the Assign A Drive Letter Or Path page, select a drive letter or enter a path for
a mounted volume, and then click Next.
6. On the Format Volume page, select the file system and enter a volume label. Click
Next.
7. On the Completion page, click Finish to create the volume.
How to Create a Striped Dynamic Volume
Striped volumes can contain from 2 to 32 disks. Data is written to and read from multiple
disks simultaneously, increasing disk performance. Data is written (striped) in 64
KB blocks. Striped volumes do not provide any fault tolerance. If one or more of the
disks in a striped volume fails, all data on the entire volume is lost. Striped volumes are
also known as RAID 0.
To create a striped volume, complete the following steps:
1. In Disk Management, right-click the unallocated space on one of the disks on
which you want to create the striped volume, and then select New Volume.
2. On the New Volume Wizard welcome page, click Next.
3. On the Select Volume Type page, click Striped, and then click Next. Note that you
must have multiple dynamic disks with unallocated space for Striped to be an
option.
4. On the Select Disks page, select the disks to be included in the striped volume.
Adjust the size of the striped volume accordingly, and then click Next.
5. On the Assign Drive Letter Or Path page, select a drive letter or enter a path for a
mounted volume, and then click Next.
6. On the Format Volume page, select the file system and enter a volume label. Click
Next.
7. On the Completion page, click Finish to create the volume.
The amount of disk space that is consumed on each disk in the striped volume must be
equal. The disk with the smallest amount of available space limits the maximum
amount of space available on a striped volume. For example, assume that you have the
following drive configuration on your computer:
■ Disk 0—No space available
■ Disk 1—2 GB available
■ Disk 2—2 GB available
■ Disk 3—1 GB available