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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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... Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the options to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. If you to manage and improve your cursor over the category to evaluate system performance, view...
... Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the options to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. If you to manage and improve your cursor over the category to evaluate system performance, view...
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To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start ... page 265). Drives and Media 77 Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on drive C (the hard drive) is available for other standard operations. A list of hard drive space used by...
To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start ... page 265). Drives and Media 77 Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on drive C (the hard drive) is available for other standard operations. A list of hard drive space used by...
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.... The Command Prompt displays the amount of a flash memory, is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on...
.... The Command Prompt displays the amount of a flash memory, is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on...
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...on the screen. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download 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 which you are ...your system window. A message appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. See the documentation that came with the device for information about the driver for the device to your ...
...on the screen. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download 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 which you are ...your system window. A message appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. See the documentation that came with the device for information about the driver for the device to your ...
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.... Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 C S - Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. RUN...
.... Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 C S - Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. RUN...
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...the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher...data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of bad sectors, and then click Start. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: ...
...the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher...data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of bad sectors, and then click Start. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: ...
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... full storage capacities of the drives to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the configuration is equal to store data. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID ...1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of drives in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 ...
... full storage capacities of the drives to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the configuration is equal to store data. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID ...1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of drives in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 ...
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...the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to store data. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - This...results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. Also, because data is duplicated on the primary and additional drives, four 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 Press the up - A ...
...the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to store data. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - This...results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. Also, because data is duplicated on the primary and additional drives, four 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 Press the up - A ...
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... "Setting Your Computer to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each hard drive. 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 done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to...
... "Setting Your Computer to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each hard drive. 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 done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to...
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...continuing. 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 Array Detail window and press . and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to select Striping. NOTE:... to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to move the selected drive from the selected drives. Drives and Media 89 NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the next step. The Clear disk data prompt appears....
...continuing. 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 Array Detail window and press . and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to select Striping. NOTE:... to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to move the selected drive from the selected drives. Drives and Media 89 NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the next step. The Clear disk data prompt appears....
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...Click Next. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any data you want to keep before ... and lists the disks that will make up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data...
...Click Next. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any data you want to keep before ... and lists the disks that will make up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data...
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...screen appears with any data. without losing any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. Drives and Media 91 NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be no smaller...Tasks pane. Also, you can change the current state of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert an array depends on the volume. The MediaShield RAID ...
...screen appears with any data. without losing any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. Drives and Media 91 NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be no smaller...Tasks pane. Also, you can change the current state of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert an array depends on the volume. The MediaShield RAID ...
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... management utility window appears and displays the status of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the array. 9 Click Finish. The ...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the System Tasks pane. NOTICE: You lose all data...
... management utility window appears and displays the status of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the array. 9 Click Finish. The ...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the System Tasks pane. NOTICE: You lose all data...
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...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 change the stripe size and ... a Press the up - Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any data on your hard drives when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID...
...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 change the stripe size and ... a Press the up - Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any data on your hard drives when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID...
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...to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to include in your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, 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 select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your RAID level...
...to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to include in your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, 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 select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your RAID level...
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...option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on the new RAID volume. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is lost. 1 Set your computer...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 ...
...option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on the new RAID volume. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is lost. 1 Set your computer...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 ...
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...your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . NOTE: Volumes with a status of the average file you ... RAID 0 as your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to migrate, and click Next. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. 9 On the Select Member...
...your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . NOTE: Volumes with a status of the average file you ... RAID 0 as your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to migrate, and click Next. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. 9 On the Select Member...