Atechnician replaces a defective 250gb hard drive in a desktop with a 2tb hard drive. after installation, the computer detects the new 2tb drive as a 250gb drive. which of the following should the technician do to fix this issue? a. reinstall the driveb. patch the osc. upgrade the driverd. flash the bios

D. Flash the BIOS

Explanation:

The function of the BIOS is to test all computer hardware that is attached to a machine before loading the operating system. Since the bios contains firmware that enables the configuration of computer hardware. when the 2 TB hard drive is connected the technician should update the program stored on the BIOS chip in other words flash the bios for it to be able to read the new hard drive. Reinstalling the drive will not make a difference as long as the BIOS still detects the 250 GB hard drive.

solution:

this situation is called an ip conflict.

data from a server is sent in small bits called packets. in an ip conflict, some packets will end up in one computer while some other packets will end up in another computer.

so…overall none of the computers get the data as the original message or picture being sent by the server cannot be retrieved with only half the packets. so it will show up as an error.

thus the final answer is d.