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... Windows® XP 72 Setting up Printers 73 Adding a Printer 73 Setting the Default Printer 74 Sharing Printers on a Network 74 Installing a Printer Driver 75 6 Drives and Media 77 Freeing up Hard Drive Space 77 6 Contents
... Windows® XP 72 Setting up Printers 73 Adding a Printer 73 Setting the Default Printer 74 Sharing Printers on a Network 74 Installing a Printer Driver 75 6 Drives and Media 77 Freeing up Hard Drive Space 77 6 Contents
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Shadow Storage 77 Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage 78 Solid-State Drive (SSD 78 Installing Drivers for Media Drives 79 Determining Whether a Device Driver is the Source of a Device Problem 79 Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of the Driver... 79 Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to Reinstall a Driver 80 Manually Reinstalling a Driver 80 Drive Problems 81 Optical Drive Problems 82 Hard Drive Problems 82 Working with RAID 83 RAID Level 0 83 RAID Level 1 84 RAID Level 0+1 Configuration 86 RAID Level 5 Configuration 87...
Shadow Storage 77 Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage 78 Solid-State Drive (SSD 78 Installing Drivers for Media Drives 79 Determining Whether a Device Driver is the Source of a Device Problem 79 Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of the Driver... 79 Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to Reinstall a Driver 80 Manually Reinstalling a Driver 80 Drive Problems 81 Optical Drive Problems 82 Hard Drive Problems 82 Working with RAID 83 RAID Level 0 83 RAID Level 1 84 RAID Level 0+1 Configuration 86 RAID Level 5 Configuration 87...
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...; XP 128 Performance Tuning 129 System Setup Based Performance Tuning . . . . 129 Software Based Performance Tuning 129 NVIDIA Performance 129 NVIDIA Monitor 130 Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive 131 Defragmenting Your Hard Drive 132 Detecting and Repairing Disk Errors 133 Scanning for Viruses and Spyware 133 10 Contents
...; XP 128 Performance Tuning 129 System Setup Based Performance Tuning . . . . 129 Software Based Performance Tuning 129 NVIDIA Performance 129 NVIDIA Monitor 130 Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive 131 Defragmenting Your Hard Drive 132 Detecting and Repairing Disk Errors 133 Scanning for Viruses and Spyware 133 10 Contents
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... Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on your hard drive to make changes to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on to enhance the performance of the options to manage and improve your...
... Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on your hard drive to make changes to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on to enhance the performance of the options to manage and improve your...
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...→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer...
...→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer...
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.... 5 Type the following : vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas... Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of a flash ...
.... 5 Type the following : vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas... Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of a flash ...
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... that came with the device for information about the driver for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers and Utilities media is your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for additionally installed devices...on the screen. HINT: The drivers for which you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. The drivers used by your computer are installing the driver (for the device to your first time to ...
... that came with the device for information about the driver for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers and Utilities media is your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for additionally installed devices...on the screen. HINT: The drivers for which you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. The drivers used by your computer are installing the driver (for the device to your first time to ...
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... eject hole at the front of different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. Hard Drive Problems A L L O W T H E C O M P U T E R T O C O O L B E F O R E T U R N I N G I T O N - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. RUN CHECK DISK - 82...
... eject hole at the front of different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. Hard Drive Problems A L L O W T H E C O M P U T E R T O C O O L B E F O R E T U R N I N G I T O N - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. RUN CHECK DISK - 82...
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...dell.com. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives...FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. The number of all data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Working with RAID A redundant array of bad sectors, and then click Start. Drives and Media 83 For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local...
...dell.com. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives...FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. The number of all data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Working with RAID A redundant array of bad sectors, and then click Start. Drives and Media 83 For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local...
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... 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of drives in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For...
... 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of drives in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For...
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... - Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup... Program" on which to the other surviving drives. RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. It provides data striping at the ...
... - Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup... Program" on which to the other surviving drives. RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. It provides data striping at the ...
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... or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. and right-arrow keys to... Save/Exit, and then press to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Configuring RAID Your computer can be configured for each applicable hard drive on your computer, you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer to...
... or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. and right-arrow keys to... Save/Exit, and then press to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Configuring RAID Your computer can be configured for each applicable hard drive on your computer, you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer to...
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.... 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in the RAID array. To create a RAID 1 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press...when prompted to select Striping. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to move the selected drive from the selected drives. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the right-arrow key to an array, press . The Define a New Array window appears...
.... 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in the RAID array. To create a RAID 1 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press...when prompted to select Striping. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to move the selected drive from the selected drives. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the right-arrow key to an array, press . The Define a New Array window appears...
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...into a RAID array. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on the selected drive. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID ...1). 6 Click Next. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The NVIDIA Create Array Wizard screen appears and lists the disks that are available for configuration. 4 ...
...into a RAID array. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on the selected drive. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID ...1). 6 Click Next. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The NVIDIA Create Array Wizard screen appears and lists the disks that are available for configuration. 4 ...
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.... Also, you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. without losing any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be no smaller than any data you want to keep before continuing. NOTICE: If your computer currently boots to ... the name and size of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you have marked for example - Drives and Media 91 Back up any of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer...
.... Also, you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. without losing any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be no smaller than any data you want to keep before continuing. NOTICE: If your computer currently boots to ... the name and size of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you have marked for example - Drives and Media 91 Back up any of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer...
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...Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the array. 9 Click Finish. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "...migration process along with any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Under Free Disk Selection, click the check box next to the hard drive(s) you want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. NOTE...
...Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the array. 9 Click Finish. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "...migration process along with any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Under Free Disk Selection, click the check box next to the hard drive(s) you want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. NOTE...
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...the Operating System Installed" on page 94. • "Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed" on page 95. • "Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1)" on page 95. • "Migrating to a RAID Level 0 Configuration" on page 96. • "Migrating to a RAID Level 1 Configuration" on ... Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up data that you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you are prompted to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press . 4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press ...
...the Operating System Installed" on page 94. • "Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed" on page 95. • "Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1)" on page 95. • "Migrating to a RAID Level 0 Configuration" on page 96. • "Migrating to a RAID Level 1 Configuration" on ... Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up data that you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you are prompted to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press . 4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press ...
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...see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to include in the Selected window. Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to include in your ...select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is the maximum available size. 6 Press to create the volume....
...see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to include in the Selected window. Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to include in your ...select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is the maximum available size. 6 Press to create the volume....
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... and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use, and then click the right arrow. 7 Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Selected window, and then click Next. 8 In the Specify Volume Size window...; Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have replaced the failed hard drive (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (...
... and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use, and then click the right arrow. 7 Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Selected window, and then click Next. 8 In the Specify Volume Size window...; Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have replaced the failed hard drive (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (...
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... automatically. NOTE: If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing... the data or operating system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. 9 On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive(s) to select the member drive(s) to span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you want to...
... automatically. NOTE: If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing... the data or operating system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. 9 On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive(s) to select the member drive(s) to span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you want to...