Question for 25th November

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You have decided to upgrade from Windows 98 to XP. What should you do with regard to SMARTDRV?

A) Disable it

B) Load it

C) Change the settings for SMARTDRV to Protected mode

D) Activate the write-through option for SMARTDRV

Answer tommorow.

 

[HIDE]Erm, C?[/HIDE]

Complete guess though.

Never even heard of Smartdrv! - Google here I come!

 

Going to try [HIDE]A[/HIDE]

 

[HIDE]A[/HIDE]

Just a guess though

 

Can't remember what that is...gah

How about [HIDE]A[/HIDE]

 

[hide]My initial reaction is A but for some reason my gut says D ...
I'm saying A ...
[/hide]

 

Complete guess, disable it.

 

[HIDE]Load it[/HIDE]

Neall

 

i'd have to go with A on this one - disable it??

 

[HIDE]Installing XP involves chucking the disc in and pressing 'GO!' Choose your partition and the thing does it itself. None of these. Ace question though![/HIDE]

 

[HIDE]Win98 doesn't use smartdrive, unless it is loaded in the DOS portion of startup autoexec.bat/config.sys

When you are performing an upgrade, it is best to empty your temporary internet files, uninstall any anti virus programs and rem out any entries in the above files.

*A* for disable is correct I believe for this question.

Now if you were doing a clean install by booting up with a DOS disk, that would be completely different because the file copy process would be very slow without smartdrive. The installation procedure will remark out these unnecessary lines as part of the installation.[/HIDE]

 

I am going to give the following answer.
[HIDE]answer a[/HIDE]

 

Some varied answers for this one guy's.

Comptia want B- Load SMARTDRV

Reason:

XP will install much quicker with it loaded

 

Could you confirm this with a link please Boyce. I am not saying you are wrong, I would just like to read more on this.

 

Yeah, i will tommorow Pete. 22:44 here and, well, i'm off to bye bye's.
Had a few beers after Wales vs Austrailia

 

lol sleep well my friend

 

Pete,

This is the generic reason for answer b and does not insinuate that you have/never done the reasons explained.

Although you could use rote memory for this question, a better way would be to do a clean install from a command line on a test machine.
If you've installed upgrades to XP only from within a previous of Windows you might miss the connection with Smartdrive.
9X disables the cache program where XP installs much faster with Smartdrive loaded into memory.
The two hard choices are between A and B.

C is wrong because Smartdrive has no settings for any specific type of mode.

D is wrong because a write-through option is a type of caching, which would require that the program be loaded. This could be correct but less relevant than A or B.
D assumes Smartdrive is already loaded, the question asking whether it is loaded in the first place.

Hope this clears this mist

 

My first thought is wtf is rote memory?

My second musings revolve around trying to understand what is being said in the above statement. What I think the writer is saying is this...

When you do a clean install from DOS (command line). XP will load much faster *if* smartdrive is loaded. Smartdrive speeds up the copying files portion of setup. You may not have noticed this if you have upgraded from Win9x because Win9x doesn't need smartdrive to function.

Then the writer goes on to say, it's difficult to chose between A and B

It just goes to show you how difficult it is to write a question in a way that is crystal clear. I could not make head nor tail out of quite a few Microsoft questions, some were so baffling they did me 'ed in

 

[HIDE]disable[/HIDE]