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The document discusses the basics of operating system installation, including key terms like install, format, partition, and file systems. It explains that installing an operating system involves preparing partitions on the hard drive and formatting them to support a file system, like FAT32 or NTFS. While FAT32 only supports small individual files and drive sizes, NTFS allows unlimited file sizes, has security features, and is better optimized through its use of journaling.

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Software Introduction S

The document discusses the basics of operating system installation, including key terms like install, format, partition, and file systems. It explains that installing an operating system involves preparing partitions on the hard drive and formatting them to support a file system, like FAT32 or NTFS. While FAT32 only supports small individual files and drive sizes, NTFS allows unlimited file sizes, has security features, and is better optimized through its use of journaling.

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Basics in Installing

Operating System
Basics of Operating System Installation

A.
Create a presentation that explains the following terms used in computer
installation:
1. Install
2. Format
3. Partition
4. File System (FAT32 and NTFS)
5. Features of NTFS
B.
 Explain the following:
 CMOS, BIOS and UEFI
 Download videos that explains the functions and differences of BIOS, CMOS and
UEFI. Based on the videos make on outline of the functions and differences
Basics of Operating System Installation

Install

To connect or set in position and prepare for use. In computer terminology,


install usually refers to putting software on a computer (install the software), or 
adding hardware components to your computer (install the hardware).

Format
To format a drive (hard disk, floppy disk, flash drive, etc.) means to prepare the
chosen partition on the drive to be used by an operating system by deleting all
of the data and setting up a file system.
Operating System Installation

Partition

A partition is a division or "part" of a real hard disk drive. When you partition a


hard drive, you make it available to an operating system. Multiple partitions on a
singe hard drive appear as separate drives to the operating system.

For example, when you install on operating system like Windows 8, part of the
process is to define a partition on the hard drive. This partition serves to define
an area of the hard drive that Windows 7 can use to install all of its files. In
Windows operating systems, this primary partition is usually assigned the drive
letter of "C".
Operating System Installation

File System

A file system provides a way for how data is stored and organized on a storage
device. A file system is an index or database containing the physical location of
every piece of data on the hard drive or other storage device.
Operating System Installation

1. What will happen to your storage device without file system?


2. Enumerate differences of the three file systems.
Operating System Installation

FAT32 (File Allocation Table) File System

FAT32 can only support files up to 4GB and most of the Windows OS 8/8.1/10 will
require around 3.83GB or more in bootable drive. In a typical 4GB USB drive, you get
around 3.72/3.73GB usable space. Hence FAT32 is not recommended.
 
FAT32 can be used if you are installing Windows XP as it requires around 650–750MB. It
is read/write compatible with a majority of recent and recently obsolete operating
systems, including DOS and Windows XP, Mac OS X, and UNIX-descended operating
systems including Linux and FreeBSD.
Operating System Installation

FAT32 (File Allocation Table) File System

The FAT32 file system cannot store individual files larger than 4 GB, while the NTFS file
system can. Compared to FAT32, the NTFS file system has higher disk utilization and
can manage disk space more effectively. The read and write speeds of NTFS are also
faster than that of FAT32.

FAT32 only supports individual files up to 4GB in size and volumes up to 2TB in size.
For example, if you had a large video file over 4GB in size, you just couldn’t save it on
the FAT32 file system. if you had a 3TB drive, you couldn’t format it as a single FAT32
partition. NTFS has much higher theoretical limits.
Operating System Installation

FAT32 (File Allocation Table) File System

FAT32 isn’t a journaling file system, which means that file system corruption can happen
much more easily. With NTFS, changes are logged to a “journal” on the drive before
they’re actually made. If the computer loses power in the middle of a file being written,
the system won’t need a long scandisk operation to recover.

FAT32 doesn’t support file permissions. With NTFS, file permissions allow for increased
security. System files can be made read-only so typical programs can’t touch them, users
can be prevented from looking at other users’ data, and so on.
Operating System Installation

NTFS File System

NT file system (NTFS), which is also sometimes called the New Technology File
System, is a process that the Windows NT operating system uses for storing,
organizing, and finding files on a hard disk efficiently. NTFS was first introduced
in 1993, as apart of the Windows NT 3.1 release.

NTFS format is widely used because it can support any file size. So you can
easily install OS with large file size.
Operating System Installation

NTFS File System


NTFS features
One distinguishing characteristic of NTFS, compared with FAT, is that it allows
for file permissions and encryption. Notable features of NTFS include the
following:
Organizational efficiency. NTFS uses a b-tree directory scheme to keep track
of file clusters. This is significant because it allows for efficient sorting and
organization of files.

Accessible data. It stores data about a file’s clusters and other data in the
MFT, not just in an overall governing table as with FAT.
File size. NTFS supports very large files.

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