Luckily your file uses YYYY-MM-SS HH:MM:SS timestamps, which sort alphabetically. Those can be compared with < > <= etc without worrying about any date math. MIN="..." and MAX="..." are where those values are input into awk.
If it's an ethernet network: <span>network interface card</span>
The answer is: The the negative battery cable.
The harddrive needs to be partitioned, much like partitioning a room, this is were you allocate space to be used, and used by who. Secondly, a file system needs to installed, to do this you "format" the drive with one of the available File systems that windows can read. Typically on windows this is NTFS or fat32 for older system or devices such as USB sticks.
