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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 ...
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 ...
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... that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-state is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random...3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to Shadow Storage. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the ...
... that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-state is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random...3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to Shadow Storage. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the ...
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...performance and good fault tolerance. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode... 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving...
...performance and good fault tolerance. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode... 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving...
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... Media Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to rebuild by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→...; Finish. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the ...
... Media Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTE: You can rebuild the array by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to rebuild by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→...; Finish. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the ...
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... 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is Rebuild. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer to ...10 Follow the Microsoft Windows procedures for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer. 2 Press when you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→...
... 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is Rebuild. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer to ...10 Follow the Microsoft Windows procedures for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer. 2 Press when you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→...
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...your computer. Use the Dell Drivers and Utilities media to complete. NOTICE: The Operating System media provides options for reinstalling Windows XP. See "Determining Whether a Device Driver is the first drive detected by the computer. For conventional hard drive configurations, the primary hard drive is the Source of ...operating state it was in before you installed the new device driver (see "Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of the computer. Therefore, do not reinstall Windows XP unless a Dell technical support representative instructs you to do so. 1 Save and close any open...
...your computer. Use the Dell Drivers and Utilities media to complete. NOTICE: The Operating System media provides options for reinstalling Windows XP. See "Determining Whether a Device Driver is the first drive detected by the computer. For conventional hard drive configurations, the primary hard drive is the Source of ...operating state it was in before you installed the new device driver (see "Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of the computer. Therefore, do not reinstall Windows XP unless a Dell technical support representative instructs you to do so. 1 Save and close any open...
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...C S - P R E S S F 5 T O R U N O N B O A R D D I A G N O S T I D - Enter the system setup program and ensure that support multiple hard drives. Run the Dell Diagnostics (see "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on page 292. R E A D F A I L U R E O N S E C O N D I N T E R N A L H A R D D R I M E A ...replace the CMOS battery. See "Lockups and Software Problems" on page 308). The system cannot detect a bootable device or partition. • If the optical drive is your boot device, ensure that the cables are connected and that a bootable optical media is in the drive. • If the hard drive...
...C S - P R E S S F 5 T O R U N O N B O A R D D I A G N O S T I D - Enter the system setup program and ensure that support multiple hard drives. Run the Dell Diagnostics (see "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on page 292. R E A D F A I L U R E O N S E C O N D I N T E R N A L H A R D D R I M E A ...replace the CMOS battery. See "Lockups and Software Problems" on page 308). The system cannot detect a bootable device or partition. • If the optical drive is your boot device, ensure that the cables are connected and that a bootable optical media is in the drive. • If the hard drive...
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... NOT BOOT WITH THIS BATTERY PLUGGED IN. WARNING MESSAGES HAVE BEEN DISABLED. Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on page 307. PRESS F1 TO SHUTDOWN THE S YS T E M . WA R N I N G : T H E T P M C O U L D N O T B E I N I T I A L I S R E M O V E D . - IT IS ADVISABLE TO IMMEDIATELY BACK UP YOUR DATA AND REPLACE YOUR HARD DRIVE BY CALLING YOUR SUPPORT DESK OR D E L L. - YOUR POWER ADAPTER DOES NOT SUPPLY...
... NOT BOOT WITH THIS BATTERY PLUGGED IN. WARNING MESSAGES HAVE BEEN DISABLED. Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on page 307. PRESS F1 TO SHUTDOWN THE S YS T E M . WA R N I N G : T H E T P M C O U L D N O T B E I N I T I A L I S R E M O V E D . - IT IS ADVISABLE TO IMMEDIATELY BACK UP YOUR DATA AND REPLACE YOUR HARD DRIVE BY CALLING YOUR SUPPORT DESK OR D E L L. - YOUR POWER ADAPTER DOES NOT SUPPLY...
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...the boot routine three consecutive times for the same error. Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on hard disk drive, the hard disk drive cable is loose, or no bootable device exists. • If the hard drive is your boot device, ensure that the cables are connected ...failed. If reseating the cable does not solve the problem, replace the keyboard. CMOS checksum error - Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on page 60). The computer failed to resolve the issue. Possible hard disk drive failure during POST. CPU fan failure - Possible motherboard failure or...
...the boot routine three consecutive times for the same error. Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on hard disk drive, the hard disk drive cable is loose, or no bootable device exists. • If the hard drive is your boot device, ensure that the cables are connected ...failed. If reseating the cable does not solve the problem, replace the keyboard. CMOS checksum error - Contact Dell for assistance (see "Contacting Dell" on page 60). The computer failed to resolve the issue. Possible hard disk drive failure during POST. CPU fan failure - Possible motherboard failure or...