Section 1.2

I've taken notes for about 2 more hours on section 1.2 of our tutorial video. This section focused on installing operating systems (OS's), what requirements must be met for operating systems to function, and what is done during an operating system installation. I learned different ways of installing OS's- through a CD-ROM, or through a formatted USB drive. I learned how to create a hard drive partition, which is a separated "section" of your storage device. The OS can be downloaded on a hard drive partition if an OS is already present (you can have a Mac OS on one partition and Windows 8 on another for example), or you can overwrite the partition. I learned how to do each of these steps in greater detail. Once the OS installation is taking place, you can choose the file systems type (how data is stored and read on the piece of hardware). I learned about the different types of file systems- FAT, FAT 32, NTFS, and CDFS- and what the differences are between them. The tutorial then went into the actual installation process, using Windows XP as the first example. Again, this entire section was very informative and I have a feeling that the content I learned about here will remain significant not only throughout the tutorial video, but throughout my work with computers in general. In total, I now have 5 hours done out of 25 for my Capstone project.