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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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...performance. Use options provided to free up text box. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on your hard drive to make changes to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on to enhance the performance of the ... Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. Use the Device Manager to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on page 125 for you are not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your computer.
...performance. Use options provided to free up text box. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on your hard drive to make changes to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on to enhance the performance of the ... Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. Use the Device Manager to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on page 125 for you are not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your computer.
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...Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. 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... space for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on page 265). A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. To determine how...
...Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. 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... space for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on page 265). A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. To determine how...
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... (C:) to confirm that less drive space has been allocated to Shadow Storage. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage....: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin...
... (C:) to confirm that less drive space has been allocated to Shadow Storage. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage....: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin...
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... installed devices may not be included on the Drivers and Utilities media. See the documentation 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 type of device for example, Audio ...Drivers and Utilities Media to restart the computer. 4 When you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the device to your first time to use the Drivers and...
... installed devices may not be included on the Drivers and Utilities media. See the documentation 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 type of device for example, Audio ...Drivers and Utilities Media to restart the computer. 4 When you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the device to your first time to use the Drivers and...
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... eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. 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 "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not...
... eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. 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 "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not...
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...MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Working with RAID A redundant array of bad sectors, and then click Start. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. If you are four... failure of one drive results in this section. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com.
...MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Working with RAID A redundant array of bad sectors, and then click Start. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. If you are four... failure of one drive results in this section. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com.
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... Media RAID level 0 uses data striping to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. This allows one of the drives to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of both drives. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next...
... Media RAID level 0 uses data striping to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. This allows one of the drives to store data. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of both drives. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next...
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...(rotating parity array). and down -arrow keys to store data. 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 page 308). 2 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the ...other surviving drives. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . A replacement drive can then...
...(rotating parity array). and down -arrow keys to store data. 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 page 308). 2 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the ...other surviving drives. Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . A replacement drive can then...
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...Save/Exit, and then press to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). Depending on page 92. Back up any data you want to create and manage RAID arrays. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal ...computer (see the following procedure deletes all data on your computer, you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using...
...Save/Exit, and then press to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). Depending on page 92. Back up any data you want to create and manage RAID arrays. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal ...computer (see the following procedure deletes all data on your computer, you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using...
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...navigate to clear all data on what computer you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to enter the RAID BIOS. Back up any data 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 . NOTE: To delete ...an array, use the right-arrow key to move the selected drive from the selected drives. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until ...
...navigate to clear all data on what computer you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to enter the RAID BIOS. Back up any data 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 . NOTE: To delete ...an array, use the right-arrow key to move the selected drive from the selected drives. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until ...
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... array varies, depending on what computer you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. The Clearing System Data...
... array varies, depending on what computer you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. The Clearing System Data...
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...select the array you want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any data. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on several... factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. from striped to mirrored, for deletion. 5 Click...
...select the array you want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any data. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on several... factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. from striped to mirrored, for deletion. 5 Click...
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... 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 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 next step. The .../migration process 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. NOTICE: You lose all data on page 93. 92...
... 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 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 next step. The .../migration process 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. NOTICE: You lose all data on page 93. 92...
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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 select RAID0 (Stripe). NOTICE:...up data that you are reinstalling your operating system. 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 keep before continuing. and down -arrow keys to...
...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 select RAID0 (Stripe). NOTICE:...up data that you are reinstalling your operating system. 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 keep before continuing. and down -arrow keys to...
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... 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 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" on page 265). The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click Next. For RAID 1 Press the up - The default value is ...
... 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 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" on page 265). The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click Next. For RAID 1 Press the up - The default value is ...
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... (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after 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 Finish ... RAID level, and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you have not yet set your computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the new RAID volume. Drives and Media 95 NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the...
... (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after 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 Finish ... RAID level, and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you have not yet set your computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the new RAID volume. Drives and Media 95 NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the...
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...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 ... a RAID volume 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 the size of Rebuild are rebuilt within the operating system. 5 Use the up- and down box...
...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 ... a RAID volume 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 the size of Rebuild are rebuilt within the operating system. 5 Use the up- and down box...