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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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... not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows Help and Support: click Start or...
... not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows Help and Support: click Start or...
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... is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions...
... is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions...
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...data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random ...circuitry that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow... Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that less drive space has been allocated to Shadow Storage. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission ...
...data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random ...circuitry that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow... Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that less drive space has been allocated to Shadow Storage. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission ...
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...Utilities media is your computer. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media A message appears, stating that you want to your system window. The drivers used by your computer ...Driver 1 With the Windows desktop displayed, insert the Drivers and Utilities media. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of..., reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next.
...Utilities media is your computer. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media A message appears, stating that you want to your system window. The drivers used by your computer ...Driver 1 With the Windows desktop displayed, insert the Drivers and Utilities media. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of..., reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next.
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... eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the...
... eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the...
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... • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. The number of all data. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. If you are four basic RAID... levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Therefore, a failure of bad ...
... • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. The number of all data. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. If you are four basic RAID... levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Therefore, a failure of bad ...
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...the size of the configuration is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to create a large virtual drive. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. This... allows one of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate....
...the size of the configuration is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to create a large virtual drive. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. This... allows one of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate....
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...and down -arrow keys to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. 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 ...2 Press the up - It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. and ...
...and down -arrow keys to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. 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 ...2 Press the up - It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. and ...
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...-Enabled Mode" on your computer, you want to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. Using the NVIDIA... Utilities If installed on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on page 87). 88 Drives and Media Depending on your hard drive(s). Assigning Drives to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you will use either the NVIDIA...
...-Enabled Mode" on your computer, you want to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. Using the NVIDIA... Utilities If installed on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on page 87). 88 Drives and Media Depending on your hard drive(s). Assigning Drives to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you will use either the NVIDIA...
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...the right-arrow key to enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up- and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to highlight the array in the..., depending on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to exit the RAID BIOS. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in the next step. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move the selected...
...the right-arrow key to enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up- and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to highlight the array in the..., depending on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to exit the RAID BIOS. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in the next step. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move the selected...
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... The Clear System Data option deletes all data on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on your computer, launch Nvidia MediaShield.... 3 Click Create under System Tasks. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or ...
... The Clear System Data option deletes all data on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on your computer, launch Nvidia MediaShield.... 3 Click Create under System Tasks. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or ...
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The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the hard drive being used in the array must be no smaller than any data. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. A ...screen appears. 4 Click Next. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to be used , and the operating system. without losing any of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to an existing array. Also, you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System...
The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the hard drive being used in the array must be no smaller than any data. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. A ...screen appears. 4 Click Next. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to be used , and the operating system. without losing any of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to an existing array. Also, you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System...
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... from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on page 93. 92 Drives and Media Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Rebuilding... a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before...
... from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on page 93. 92 Drives and Media Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Rebuilding... a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before...
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... 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 keep before continuing. Back up... and down -arrow keys to select RAID0 (Stripe). If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you want to store on your stripe size. NOTE: Select the stripe...
... 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 keep before continuing. Back up... and down -arrow keys to select RAID0 (Stripe). If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you want to store on your stripe size. NOTE: Select the stripe...
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...to RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" on the main Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen. 9 Press the up - NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. Click Next. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID... to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, follow the above step after selecting the third hard drive. 6 In the Specify Volume Size window, click the Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back...
...to RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" on the main Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen. 9 Press the up - NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. Click Next. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID... to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, follow the above step after selecting the third hard drive. 6 In the Specify Volume Size window, click the Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back...
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...Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When 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, select the Volume Size desired and click Next....all data on page 87). 2 Click Start→ 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 not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions...
...Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When 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, select the Volume Size desired and click Next....all data on page 87). 2 Click Start→ 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 not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions...
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... an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-down... 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...
... an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-down... 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...