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Format a disk on Windows

Duration: 45 minutes

Team: Groups of 3 or 4 students

🎯 Learning Objective​

The objective of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with adding new hard drives and formatting disks on Windows 11.

📜 Statement​

You need to write a procedure to format a disk on Windows 11. Feel free to take screenshots to facilitate reading.

Formatting Procedure​

  1. Create a Word file.
  2. Appoint a timekeeper.
  3. Each person creates two new virtual disks for your virtual machine. No need for a large size.
    • Shut down your virtual machine.
    • Go to your virtual machine settings (Configuration).
    • Go to the Storage tab.
    • Click on the Add Hard Disk button.
    • Choose Create.
  4. Start your virtual machine.
  5. Open the disk manager.
  6. Format one of the virtual disks in FAT32 and the other in NTFS. You can try several options.
  7. Have a group feedback session and discuss the options you found.
  8. Write the formatting procedure in the Word file.

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