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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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... and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in the Task area to free up text box. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of the options to enhance performance. Use the Device Manager ...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 make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Managing Your ...
... and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in the Task area to free up text box. Windows XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of the options to enhance performance. Use the Device Manager ...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 make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Managing Your ...
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... storage devices appears. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. 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 Microsoft® Windows...
... storage devices appears. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. 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 Microsoft® Windows...
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...) is a data storage device that 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 Access Memory), instead of space used by Shadow ...Right-click Command Prompt. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to electronic circuitry that uses solid-state memory to Shadow Storage. 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 . 7 Click Start ...
...) is a data storage device that 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 Access Memory), instead of space used by Shadow ...Right-click Command Prompt. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to electronic circuitry that uses solid-state memory to Shadow Storage. 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 . 7 Click Start ...
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HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media See the documentation that came with the device for information about the driver for the device to your system window. The drivers used ... desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to reinstall and follow the prompts on the Drivers and Utilities media. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device...
HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media See the documentation that came with the device for information about the driver for the device to your system window. The drivers used ... desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to reinstall and follow the prompts on the Drivers and Utilities media. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device...
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... slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. 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 - Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T O N - Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly.
... slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. 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 - Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T O N - Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly.
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For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local Disk (C:). 3 Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other ... data. The number of all data. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to check Scan for and attempt recovery of data integrity. • RAID level...
For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer. 2 Right-click Local Disk (C:). 3 Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other ... data. The number of all data. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to check Scan for and attempt recovery of data integrity. • RAID level...
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... is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media This allows one of hard drive space on which to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or mirrored, on the second drive in the configuration. RAID 0... full storage capacities of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to enhance data integrity. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of both drives. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring...
... is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media This allows one of hard drive space on which to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or mirrored, on the second drive in the configuration. RAID 0... full storage capacities of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to enhance data integrity. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of both drives. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring...
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... have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 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 . Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you...
... have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 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 . Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you...
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...RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 92) programs to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your computer, you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel... 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). Configuring RAID Your computer can be configured for each hard drive. 4 Press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to exit the system setup program and ...
...RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 92) programs to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your computer, you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see "Using the Intel... 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). Configuring RAID Your computer can be configured for each hard drive. 4 Press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to exit the system setup program and ...
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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 next step. NOTICE: You lose all data from the Free Disks field to exit the RAID BIOS. To create a RAID 0 ...press . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to the Array Disks field. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you want to an array, press...
...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 next step. NOTICE: You lose all data from the Free Disks field to exit the RAID BIOS. To create a RAID 0 ...press . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to the Array Disks field. Back up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you want to an array, press...
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...Selection window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drive. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you have. NOTICE: The Clear...create the RAID configuration. Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into two non-RAID hard drives with any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to select Striping (RAID...
...Selection window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drive. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you have. NOTICE: The Clear...create the RAID configuration. Back up any other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into two non-RAID hard drives with any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to select Striping (RAID...
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...must be used , and the operating system. A confirmation screen appears with any data. The time to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Converting From One RAID Configuration to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor,... the type and size 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....
...must be used , and the operating system. A confirmation screen appears with any data. The time to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Converting From One RAID Configuration to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor,... the type and size 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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... Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. 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. Back up any other installed... hard drives. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your ...
... Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. 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. Back up any other installed... hard drives. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the rebuild. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your ...
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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. Do not use the following procedure only if you want to store on page 97. NOTE:... With the 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" on the RAID volume. and...
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. Do not use the following procedure only if you want to store on page 97. NOTE:... With the 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" on the RAID volume. and...
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...create the volume, or click Back to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to make changes. 94 Drives and Media Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the main ...Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen. 9 Press the up - The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. and down -arrow keys to select Exit and press . 10 Install ...
...create the volume, or click Back to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to make changes. 94 Drives and Media Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the main ...Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen. 9 Press the up - The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. and down -arrow keys to select Exit and press . 10 Install ...
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...the RAID level, and 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 Size window, select the ... for your computer). 1 Turn on the new RAID volume. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, 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...
...the RAID level, and 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 Size window, select the ... for your computer). 1 Turn on the new RAID volume. NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, 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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... 5 Use the up- The stripe size should be closest to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down box, and then click Next. If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the...Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume....
... 5 Use the up- The stripe size should be closest to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down box, and then click Next. If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the...Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume....