Managing Devices and Disks

 
Objectives in this chapter:
 
Configure devices.
Manage disks.

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 Device Manager to View Device Information:
You can use Device Manager to perform the following tasks:
 
I.Identify the device drivers that are loaded for each device
and obtain information about each device driver.
II.Determine whether the hardware on your computer and its
associated device driver are working properly.
III.View devices based on their type, by their connection to
the computer, or by the resources they use.
IV.Enable, disable, and uninstall devices.
V.Change hardware configuration settings.
VI.Install updated device drivers.
VII.Roll back to the previous version of a driver.
VIII.Change advanced settings and properties for devices.
IX.Show hidden devices.

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 Opening Device Manager
You can open Device Manager in the following ways:

 In Control Panel, click Hardware And Sound. Click Device Manager

under Devices And Printers.
 Click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Manage. Click Device
Manager in the Computer Management tree pane.
 Open an elevated command prompt and enter mmc
devmgmt.msc.

Note:
That if you do not run the command prompt as administrator, Device Manager opens as
read-only.

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Device Manager

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Displaying device status

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Advanced settings Property details

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Viewing hidden devices

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Viewing Device Driver
Information

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 Installing Devices and Managing Device Drivers

A driver is a small software program that allows a hardware device

to communicate with a computer.
• Drivers developed for the 32-bit versions do not work with the 64-bit
versions, and vice versa.
• Device drivers that ship with Windows 7 have a Microsoft digital
signature.
• The driver store is the driver repository.
• Device metadata packages contain device experience XML documents
that represent:
• The properties of the device
• The device functions
• Applications and services that support the device.

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 Installing Devices and Drivers

Staging driver packages in the protected driver store

Add to the Driver Store by using the Plug-and-

Play utility (Pnputil.exe) at a Command Prompt
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 Installing a Non-PnP Device

The Add Hardware Wizard

Use this command for “ add and remove hardware “ :

“hdwwiz”
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How to open hardware
wizard.

1. Go to device
manager
2. Right click on
computer name
3. There you will find
“Add Legacy
hardware”

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Selecting a device driver

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 Options for Updating Drivers:
Dynamic Update
• Works with Windows Update to download critical fixes
and device drivers required for the setup process

Windows Update™
• Delivers software updates and drivers, and provides
automatic updating options
Manufacturer’s media or Web site
• Use the media or browse to the device manufacturer’s
Web site to obtain an updated driver
Device Manager
• Updates the driver software for the device manually

Compatibility Report
• Use this report to load a new or updated driver during
an upgrade
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 Resolving Driver Conflicts

The Resources tab A resource conflict

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 Using the System Information Tool to Identify
Resource Conflicts

MSinfo32 displays general system MSinfo32 displays conflicts/sharing

information information

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 Managing Signed Drivers
Benefits of signing and staging driver packages
• Improved security
• Reduced support costs
• Better user experience

Maintaining signed drivers

• Use Sigverif.exe to check for unsigned device drivers
• Use a Command Prompt to run the driverquery command with the
/si switch to obtain a basic list of signed and unsigned device
drivers
• Use Group Policy to deploy certificates to client computers

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 Partitioning Disks in Windows 7
What Is an MBR Disk?

• Is created when the disk is partitioned

• Contains a four partition entry table

• Is on the first sector of the hard disk

• Limits the number & size of partitions

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 What Is a GPT Disk?

• Supports more partitions

• Supports larger partitions

• Enhances reliability

• Supports boot disks on 64-bit Windows operating

systems, UEFI ( Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
systems
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Disk Management Tools

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 What Is a Simple Volume?

Can be extended on same disk

Not fault tolerant

Volume I/O performance the same as Disk I/O

performance

Can be extended across disks creating a spanned

volume

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 What Are Spanned and Striped Volumes?
Spanned Striped
• Requires dynamic disks • Requires multiple dynamic disks

• Space allocated from multiple dynamic • Allocated space from each disk must be
disks identical

• Up to 32 disks can be combined into single • Up to 32 disks can be combined into single
spanned volume striped volume

• No fault tolerance • No fault tolerance

• No performance improvement compared

• Well suited for isolating the paging file
to simple volumes

• Can shrink or extend • Provides for faster throughput

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 Spanned
A spanned volume joins areas of unallocated space disks into a
single logical disk.

Striped
A striped volume maps stripes of data
cyclically across the disks.

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 Purpose of Resizing a Volume

Shrink simple and spanned dynamic disks to:

• Extend the simple volume on the same disk
• Extend a simple volume to include unallocated space on other disks
on the same computer

Before shrinking:
• Defragment the disk
• Reduce shadow copy disk space consumption
• Ensure that no page files are stored on the volume to be shrunk

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 What Is Disk Fragmentation?

Disk fragmentation can:

• Consist of both fragmented files and fragmented free space
• Lead to poor performance of the disk subsystem

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 What Are Disk Quotas?

Disk quotas help you:

• Track and restrict disk

consumption
• Proactively monitor available
space
• Determine who is consuming
available space
• Plan for storage capacity
increases

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