A hard drive need not contain spinning disks or even appear as part of your
system to use many of these utilities, but the device must adhere to the basic principles of hard
drives. In most cases, that means using a track layout, partitioning scheme, provide random access,
use File Allocation Table (FAT) or NTFS as a formatting scheme, and all of the other criteria you??™ve
used in the past.
In this chapter, you??™ll learn how to do the following:
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Manage an existing hard drive configuration
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Convert FAT partitions to use NTFS
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Create and manage hard drive partitions
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Work with RAID configurations
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Work with iSCSI configurations
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Improve hard drive performance
Opening Remote Directories with the Append Utility
The Append utility lets you open multiple directories as if they exist in the current directory. In
short, this utility lets you consolidate several directories into a single directory on the hard drive.
The other directories don??™t actually appear in the current directory; the Append utility only makes
them appear that they do. This utility uses the following syntax:
APPEND [[drive:]path[;...]] [/X[:ON | :OFF]] [/PATH:ON | /PATH:OFF] [/E]
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The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
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