You partition a hard disk with an extended partition divided into three logical drives.
What must you do before you can use the logical drives?
1. Recreate the master boot record (MBR).
2. Run a low-level format on each drive.
3. Assign drive letters.
4. >>Format each drive with a file system.-->Correct
Explanation : You must format each drive with a file system before it can be used. When you create a logical drive from an extended partition, you specify the drive size. However, the logical drive is not formatted for use and must be formatted with a file system, either FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. Unless you need to support older Windows operating systems (Windows 98 or earlier), it is recommended that you use NTFS because it is more secure and more reliable than FAT or FAT32. NTFS also supports features not supported by FAT or FAT32, such as file compression and file encryption.
You should not run a low-level format. Low-level format is run on a hard disk as a whole to make it available for use by dividing the disk into tracks and sectors. With new hard disks, the low-level format is performed by the manufacturer before the hard disk is packaged for sale. It is seldom necessary to run a low-level format on modern hard disk drives, and in many cases, it is strongly discouraged by the manufacturer.
You do not need to assign drive letters because this is done when you create the logical drives.
You do not need to recreate the MBR before you can use the logical disks. The MBR is updated, effectively recreated, any time you change the partition information on a hard disk. It contains partition information and other information used by the computer when the hard disk is used as the computer's boot drive.
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