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... 5 Printers-Settings and Drivers 71 Accessing Printer Information 71 Changing Printer Settings 72 For Windows Vista 72 For 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
... 5 Printers-Settings and Drivers 71 Accessing Printer Information 71 Changing Printer Settings 72 For Windows Vista 72 For 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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... 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 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your Computer 99 Windows Vista 99 Windows® XP...
... 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 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your Computer 99 Windows Vista 99 Windows® XP...
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... 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® 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...
... 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® 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...
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... If you to manage and improve your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance... of your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or attached to your computer. Windows XP ...
... If you to manage and improve your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance... of your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or attached to your computer. Windows XP ...
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... 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Drives and Media 77 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 a System Restore (see "Using...® System Restore" on page 265). To determine how much space is displayed. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer.
... 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Drives and Media 77 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 a System Restore (see "Using...® System Restore" on page 265). To determine how much space is displayed. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer.
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...8594; Local Disk (C:) to confirm that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random...resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by 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 ...
...8594; Local Disk (C:) to confirm that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random...resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by 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 ...
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... the prompts on the screen. 3 When the InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and Utilities media and click Finish to 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 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 additionally installed devices may not be included on the screen....
... the prompts on the screen. 3 When the InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and Utilities media and click Finish to 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 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 additionally installed devices may not be included on the screen....
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... different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. 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 the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the tray until the tray is inserted properly. 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 - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD...
... different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. 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 the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the tray until the tray is inserted properly. 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 - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD...
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Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local Disk (C:). 3 Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. There are an administrator on the ...; RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10,...
Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local Disk (C:). 3 Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. There are an administrator on the ...; RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. otherwise, contact your data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10,...
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..., two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to read data...
..., two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to read data...
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... . 3 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. It provides...
... . 3 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. It provides...
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...either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on your hard drive(s). Depending on your computer, you want to keep before or after the operating system is installed. 4 Press the left - Using the NVIDIA ...on page 92. This can be of equal size to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your system, see "Setting Your Computer to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" ...
...either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on your hard drive(s). Depending on your computer, you want to keep before or after the operating system is installed. 4 Press the left - Using the NVIDIA ...on page 92. This can be of equal size to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your system, see "Setting Your Computer to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" ...
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... RAID BIOS. The Array Detail window appears. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the Array Detail window and press . To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select... number of the array that you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to the Array Disks field. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to the RAID Mode field. NOTICE: ... disk data prompt appears. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to highlight the array in the next step.
... RAID BIOS. The Array Detail window appears. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the Array Detail window and press . To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select... number of the array that you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to the Array Disks field. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to the RAID Mode field. NOTICE: ... disk data prompt appears. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to highlight the array in the next step.
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..., click Next, and then click Next again. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1). ... to create a RAID configuration only when you 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 to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ ...
..., click Next, and then click Next again. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1). ... to create a RAID configuration only when you 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 to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ ...
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...to keep before continuing. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. A confirmation screen appears with any other installed hard drives. 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 array ... want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. without losing any data you can change the current state 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....
...to keep before continuing. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. A confirmation screen appears with any other installed hard drives. 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 array ... want to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. without losing any data you can change the current state 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....
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... 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 following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 ...System" on 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 want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild ...
... 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 following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 ...System" on 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 want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild ...
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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 only if you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up...
...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 only if you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up...
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..., 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 RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" ...the volume and press . NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. 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 ...
..., 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 RAID-enabled mode (see "Restoring Your Operating System" ...the volume and press . NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. 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 ...
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... 95 NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, 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..., 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 have replaced the failed hard drive (see "Setting Your Computer to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID...
... 95 NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, 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..., 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 have replaced the failed hard drive (see "Setting Your Computer to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID...
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... system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. NOTE: You can use your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . The stripe size should be closest to the size of Rebuild.... NOTE: Volumes with a status of the average file you want to store 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...
... system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume. NOTE: You can use your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . The stripe size should be closest to the size of Rebuild.... NOTE: Volumes with a status of the average file you want to store 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...