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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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...; System and Maintenance→ Performance Information and Tools. 2 Select one 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 the performance of the available options in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make programs...
...; System and Maintenance→ Performance Information and Tools. 2 Select one 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 the performance of the available options in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make programs...
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... operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media 77 A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed...
... operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media 77 A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed...
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Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built ... → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list ...
Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built ... → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list ...
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...you are automatically displayed in the My Drivers-The Drivers and Utilities media has identified these components in your computer. The drivers used by 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 ...Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If not, go to your computer are installing the driver (for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media See the documentation that the Drivers and Utilities media is your...
...you are automatically displayed in the My Drivers-The Drivers and Utilities media has identified these components in your computer. The drivers used by 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 ...Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If not, go to your computer are installing the driver (for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media See the documentation that the Drivers and Utilities media is your...
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..., not all DVDs work in the drive or the media. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. 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 O N - 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 T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I C S - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD...
..., not all DVDs work in the drive or the media. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. 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 O N - 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 T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I C S - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD...
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... appear. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Working with RAID A redundant array of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 ... levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Windows Vista®...
... appear. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Working with RAID A redundant array of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 ... levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Windows Vista®...
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... the configuration. This allows one of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of both drives. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of drives in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration...
... the configuration. This allows one of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of both drives. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of drives in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration...
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.... 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to the other surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. This results in excellent performance and good...at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. and down -arrow keys to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press .
.... 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to the other surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. This results in excellent performance and good...at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. and down -arrow keys to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press .
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...will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on your hard drive(s). Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. 4 Press the left - and right-arrow keys to highlight... Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. This can be of equal size to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on page 92) programs...
...will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on your hard drive(s). Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. 4 Press the left - and right-arrow keys to highlight... Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. This can be of equal size to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on page 92) programs...
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...computer. 3 Press when prompted 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 and then use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous.... 4 Press to navigate to exit the RAID BIOS. 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 Define a New Array window appears. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected...
...computer. 3 Press when prompted 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 and then use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous.... 4 Press to navigate to exit the RAID BIOS. 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 Define a New Array window appears. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected...
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... 90 Drives and Media NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with ... Data window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on the selected drive. Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed...
... 90 Drives and Media NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with ... Data window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on the selected drive. Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed...
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...name and size of the array that all data on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3... pane. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Drives and Media 91 NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be no smaller than any other installed hard drives. The time to be used in the array must be used , and...
...name and size of the array that all data on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3... pane. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Drives and Media 91 NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be no smaller than any other installed hard drives. The time to be used in the array must be used , and...
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...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your ...Click Next. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Back up any other installed hard drives. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on the drives selected in the System Tasks pane. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by clicking the check box beside it. ...
...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your ...Click Next. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Back up any other installed hard drives. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on the drives selected in the System Tasks pane. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by clicking the check box beside it. ...
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... that you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you want to store on page 97. • "Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed" on page...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 ...
... that you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you want to store on page 97. • "Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed" on page...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 ...
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...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 "Setting Your Computer to select RAID1 (Mirror). 5 Select the ... include in the Selected window. For RAID 1 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 265). The selected hard drives appear in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix...
...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 "Setting Your Computer to select RAID1 (Mirror). 5 Select the ... include in the Selected window. For RAID 1 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 265). The selected hard drives appear in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix...
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...8594; 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 the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer to RAID-enabled mode...have not yet set your computer. 2 Press 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...
...8594; 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 the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer to RAID-enabled mode...have not yet set your computer. 2 Press 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...
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... store on the RAID volume. NOTE: If 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 launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R)... Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. If you...
... store on the RAID volume. NOTE: If 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 launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R)... Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. If you...