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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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...contains the necessary tool, hold your computer. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 If you to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, ..., see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. Customizing Your Computer Settings 1 Click Start or → Control Panel. 2 Select a category.
...contains the necessary tool, hold your computer. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 If you to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, ..., see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. Customizing Your Computer Settings 1 Click Start or → Control Panel. 2 Select a category.
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.... To determine how much space is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 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 conducting...
.... To determine how much space is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 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 conducting...
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...permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click ... space you will allow for this storage area. 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...
...permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click ... space you will allow for this storage area. 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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... be included on the screen. If not, go to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media The drivers used by your computer are installing the driver... (for which you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. A message appears, ...
... be included on the screen. If not, go to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media The drivers used by your computer are installing the driver... (for which you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. A message appears, ...
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RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media 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 - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by a ...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 O N - See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not ...
RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media 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 - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by a ...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 O N - See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not ...
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.... 4 Click to check Scan for and attempt recovery of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: The User Account Control window may ...support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). otherwise, contact your data. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Windows Vista®...
.... 4 Click to check Scan for and attempt recovery of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: The User Account Control window may ...support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). otherwise, contact your data. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Windows Vista®...
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...provide 240 GB of the drives to create a large virtual drive. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to store data.... This allows one of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. Data striping writes consecutive ...
...provide 240 GB of the drives to create a large virtual drive. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to store data.... This allows one of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. Data striping writes consecutive ...
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... (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - 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 the applicable hard drive, and then press . and down -arrow keys to the other...
... (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - 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 the applicable hard drive, and then press . and down -arrow keys to the other...
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... a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data on page 92. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Configuring RAID Your computer... 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). 4 Press the left - This can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program and resume the boot...
... a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data on page 92. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Configuring RAID Your computer... 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). 4 Press the left - This can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program and resume the boot...
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... array, press . The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up- NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until... Array window appears. 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 next step. Back up , use the arrow keys to select Striping. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move...
... array, press . The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up- NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until... Array window appears. 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 next step. Back up , use the arrow keys to select Striping. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move...
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.... 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 any data you want ...with a partition, and leaves any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on the selected drive. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on what computer...
.... 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 any data you want ...with a partition, and leaves any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on the selected drive. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTICE: The Clear System Data option deletes all data on what computer...
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..." on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3 Click to select the array you have marked for example - Back up any of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and size of...Array in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. Also, you can add hard drives to Another RAID Configuration You can change the current state of the array that all data on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to...
..." on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3 Click to select the array you have marked for example - Back up any of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and size of...Array in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. Also, you can add hard drives to Another RAID Configuration You can change the current state of the array that all data on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to...
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...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 array. 9 Click Finish. NOTE: You can rebuild... 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 RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. Using the Intel® RAID ...
...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 array. 9 Click Finish. NOTE: You can rebuild... 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 RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. Using the Intel® RAID ...
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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 a RAID Level 1 Configuration"...0 a Press the up - If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you are prompted to select RAID0 (Stripe). Drives and Media 93 Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any ...
...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 a RAID Level 1 Configuration"...0 a Press the up - If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you are prompted to select RAID0 (Stripe). Drives and Media 93 Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any ...
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...Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive 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 create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that the correct ...screen. 9 Press the up - Click Next. The default value is displayed on page 265). The selected hard drives appear 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 ...
...Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive 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 create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that the correct ...screen. 9 Press the up - Click Next. The default value is displayed on page 265). The selected hard drives appear 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 ...
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... 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...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 ... Console. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on the new RAID volume.
... 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...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 ... Console. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for creating a partition on the new RAID volume.
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...Next 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 the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want ...name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-down box, select RAID 0 as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1...
...Next 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 the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want ...name or accept the default. 6 From the drop-down box, select RAID 0 as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1...