The document outlines the qualifications and expertise of an instructor in the Pace-IT program at Edmonds Community College, highlighting their extensive experience in IT management and related fields. It provides details about Microsoft’s disk management utility, including functionalities such as mounting drives, extending and splitting partitions, and command line utilities. Additionally, it describes tools available for transferring files and settings between PCs, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Instructor, PACE-IT Program – Edmonds Community College
Areas of Expertise Industry Certifications
 PC Hardware
 Network Administration
 IT Project Management
 Network Design
 User Training
 IT Troubleshooting
Qualifications Summary
Education
 M.B.A., IT Management, Western Governor’s University
 B.S., IT Security, Western Governor’s University
Entrepreneur, executive leader, and proven manger
with 10+ years of experience turning complex issues
into efficient and effective solutions.
Strengths include developing and mentoring diverse
workforces, improving processes, analyzing
business needs and creating the solutions
required— with a focus on technology.

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– Disk Management utility.
– Command line utilities.
– Transfer tools.
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Disk Management is
available in all current
versions of Microsoft
operating systems.
It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) method
for managing drives on a system. It allows the user
to determine drive status, mount drives, extend
partitions, split partitions, assign drive letters, add
drives, and add arrays.
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– Drive status.
» Healthy: what you want to see.
» Unreadable: indicates a failure.
» Foreign: indicates that a dynamic disk has been moved
from one system to another.
» Online: indicates that system is ready to go.
» Online (error): indicates that the drive is about to fail.
» Offline: indicates that the drive is currently not available
to the system; it could indicate a hardware failure.
» Missing: indicates that the system knows about the
drive, but cannot find it.
» Failed: indicates a failed volume.
– Mounting a drive.
» This creates a logical pointer to the drive instead of
assigning a drive letter; it can be used in place of
spanning a volume.
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– Extending partitions.
» Reclaiming unallocated space on a drive.
– Splitting partitions.
» Just what it sounds like—taking one partition and making
into more than one.
– Assigning drive letters.
» MS OSs automatically assign drive letters to new
volumes; Disk Management allows the user to assign a
desired letter to the volume.
– Adding a drive.
» Easy GUI method to add a new drive to the system.
– Adding arrays.
» Microsoft’s method of creating software based RAIDs.
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The savvy technician knows
how to use the command
line (C:).
The technician who knows how to use the command
line is not reliant on the GUI and can solve
numerous problems through the use of it. Some
powerful tools are available through the command
line and it can be used to reach many other GUI
utilities.
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– Command or CMD.
» Type “command” or “cmd” in a run or search box to get
access to the command prompt.
– Some available GUI utilities.
» msconfig (a.k.a. system configuration): will open the
configuration utility.
» regedit: will open utility that is used to edit the system
registry.
» services.msc: will bring up the services utility.
» mmc: starts the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
» mstsc: will open the MS Terminal Services Client.
» notepad: will open a simple text editor.
» explorer: brings Windows Explorer into play.
» msinfo32: brings up the systems information utility.
» dxdiag: will bring up the DirectX diagnostic tool.
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– Microsoft understands the pain (kind
of) of transitioning from an old PC to a
new one.
– Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
» Window’s basic wizard used to transfer user settings and
files from an old PC to a new one, included in XP.
– Windows Easy Transfer.
» Replacement for the above in Windows Vista and newer.
» Supports different methods of transfer.
– User State Migration Tool (USMT).
» Allows advanced users to use scripting to customize the
transfer of files and settings between computers.
• Currently is only available as a command line utility.
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Available in all current versions of Windows. Allows for a GUI method of
easily managing the disks on a system. Status, mounting, partitioning, drive
letter assignment, and adding drives and arrays are all available from this
utility.
Topic
Disk Management utility.
Summary.
The command line is a very powerful and useful tool to the technician. It
also allows easy access to GUI utilities. Some of the GUI utilities available
through the command line are msconfig, regedit, services.msc, mmc,
mstsc, notepad, explorer, msinfo32, and dxdiag.
Command line utilities.
Microsoft provided tools to help transfer user settings and files between an
old PC and a new one. Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (XP) was
replaced by Windows Easy Transfer. USMT is for advanced users and
utilizes scripting to automate the transfer function.
Transfer tools.

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