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Managing Memory and Disks
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Author: Sean Daily
Published: February 1997
Copyright: 1997
Publisher: 29th Street Press
 


This chapter explores Windows NT’s memory, processing, and disk-related features — and the utilities you can use to monitor and manage them. This chapter covers memory management, paging file, multitasking and multiprocessor features, Disk Administrator for managing disks, and the file system (NTFS).

Chapter Contents


  • HOW WINDOWS NT MANAGES MEMORY
    • Memory and the Working Set
      • Physical Memory, Virtual Memory, and the Windows NT Paging File
    • The Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)
  • MULTITASKING IN WINDOWS NT
    • Cooperative vs. Preemptive Multitasking
    • Multithreading
    • Multitasking 16-bit Windows Programs
      • Running 16-bit Applications In Separate Subsystems
    • Multitasking 32-bit Windows Programs
    • Multitasking POSIX and OS/2 Applications
  • MANAGING DISKS WITH DISK ADMINISTRATOR
    • Partitions, Volumes, and Drives
      • Primary and Extended Partitions
      • System Partition
      • Boot Partition
      • Volume
      • Logical Drive
      • Set
      • Volume Set
      • Stripe Set
    • Managing Drives and Partitions
    • Creating Partitions and Logical Drives
    • Managing Volume Sets
      • Extending a Volume Set
    • Managing Stripe Sets
    • Deleting Partitions, Sets and Logical Drives
    • Formatting Partitions, Sets, and Logical Drives
    • Reformatting and Converting Partitions, Sets, and Volumes
      • Reformatting a Volume under the Same File System
    • Changing a Drive’s Assigned Letter
    • Managing CD-ROM Drives
    • Saving, Restoring, and Locating Disk Configurations
    • The Windows NT File Systems
      • The FAT File System
        • FAT Features
      • The NTFS File System
        • NTFS Security
        • NTFS Reliability
        • NTFS Performance
        • NTFS File and Folder Compression
        • Removable NTFS Volumes
      • The Orphaned HPFS File System
      • Choosing Your File System

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