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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 monitor your computer. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of your computer's performance and...
... 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 monitor your computer. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of your computer's performance and...
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The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on page 265). A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start →.... To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage 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 free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on page 265). A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start →.... To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage 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 ...
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...; Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to store persistent data. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . ...a data storage device that refers to Shadow Storage. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using ...
...; Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to store persistent data. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . ...a data storage device that refers to Shadow Storage. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using ...
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...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...appears, stating that you want to step 2. HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to restart the computer. 4 When you are automatically displayed ..., reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If this is detecting hardware in your computer.
...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...appears, stating that you want to step 2. HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to restart the computer. 4 When you are automatically displayed ..., reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If this is detecting hardware in your computer.
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... and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the drive or the media. 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 - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until the tray is...
... and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the drive or the media. 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 - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until the tray is...
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... of bad sectors, and then click Start. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss...
... of bad sectors, and then click Start. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss...
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...NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. When data is written to provide a high data access rate. RAID level 0 uses data striping to ...the primary drive, the data is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the ...
...NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. When data is written to provide a high data access rate. RAID level 0 uses data striping to ...the primary drive, the data is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the ...
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... 87 RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. and down -... 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 drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode ...
... 87 RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. and down -... 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 drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode ...
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... page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media Configuring RAID Your computer can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your computer (see the following procedure deletes all data on page 92) programs to avoid unallocated... space. 6 Press , press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your hard drive(s). This can be of equal size to create and manage RAID arrays. and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program and resume...
... page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media Configuring RAID Your computer can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your computer (see the following procedure deletes all data on page 92) programs to avoid unallocated... space. 6 Press , press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your hard drive(s). This can be of equal size to create and manage RAID arrays. and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program and resume...
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...enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: The number of the array that 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 . Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on what computer you want to an.... 11 Press to the Array Disks field. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the next step. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on the...
...enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: The number of the array that 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 . Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on what computer you want to an.... 11 Press to the Array Disks field. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the next step. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on the...
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... volume splits the volume into a RAID array. 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 NVIDIA Create ...-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 any other installed hard drives. Assigning New Drives to...
... volume splits the volume into a RAID array. 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 NVIDIA Create ...-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 any other installed hard drives. Assigning New Drives to...
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... 4 Click Next. Converting From One RAID Configuration to an existing array. The time to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be no smaller than any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the... hard drive being used, and the operating system. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on...
... 4 Click Next. Converting From One RAID Configuration to an existing array. The time to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be no smaller than any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the... hard drive being used, and the operating system. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on...
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... 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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. 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 RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the...
... 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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. 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 RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the...
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... 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 your... hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. and down-arrow keys to change the stripe size and press . NOTE: Select the stripe...
... 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 your... hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. and down-arrow keys to change the stripe size and press . NOTE: Select the stripe...
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... launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost. 1 Set your computer to select RAID1 (Mirror). 5 Select the desired capacity for the volume and ...press . The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. The default value is displayed on the main Intel RAID Option ROM...
... launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost. 1 Set your computer to select RAID1 (Mirror). 5 Select the desired capacity for the volume and ...press . The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. The default value is displayed on the main Intel RAID Option ROM...
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...for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart 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 Next. 9 Click ...5 Confirm the volume name, select RAID 1 as the RAID level, and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID...
...for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart 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 Next. 9 Click ...5 Confirm the volume name, select RAID 1 as the RAID level, and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID...
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...up- If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" 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...then press . 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 want to store on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-...
...up- If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" 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...then press . 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 want to store on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-...