Hardware and Operating Systems – INFT130

Winter 2007

Assignment #3 (week 9) *** Due Thursday March 12 ***

Objectives:

- To reinforce your knowledge gained from the class lectures and the exercises.

- To continue building critical thinking to help with diagnosis and troubleshooting of problems.

Deliverables: a document that answers the following questions.

{10 points each}

1. Why would you want to run a computer with a bootable floppy or CD?
2. Briefly describe what formatting a disk does.
3. What is a serious hazard of formatting?
4. Describe what it means to partition a disk.
5. What command utility is executed in order to partition a disk?
6. What command is executed in order to view all the partitions on a disk?
7. Give a brief description of each of the following commands:
1. Delete
2. Copy
3. Type
4. Edit
5. Dir
6. Rename
7. More {remember the command: dir | more }
8. Mkdir
9. Cd
10. Help
11. Format

{note: in Windows XP/Vista, you can get to the command prompt with the

STARTàRUN and then type CMD

8. What is a batch file?
9. What is the advantage of using a batch file?
10. Briefly describe the POST operation.
11. Smarthinking assignment (using handout from class)

- Submit your paper from Assignment 2 to Smarthinking. Select the “essay” review. Give them 2 days at most to review it. They should send the review to your INBOX at the Smarthinking website.

- Print out the comments they provided you and submit it to me for full credit.