Dell XPS M2010 Support Question
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Question posted by marmcphed on September 16th, 2014
How To Get Xps M2010 To Boot To One Hard Drive
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Owner's Manual - Page 7
... 86
10 Troubleshooting 87
Dell Technical Update Service 87
Dell Diagnostics 87 When to Use the Dell Diagnostics 87 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive 87 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media . . . . 88 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 89
Dell Support Utility 90 Accessing the Dell Support...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
...your Service Tag.
Computer documentation, details on page 90.
• How to use Windows XP • How to work with programs and files • How to view the appropriate ...the keyword
your configuration. Finding Information
13 updates appropriate for components, such as memory, the hard drive, and the operating system
• Customer Care -
For more information, see "Dell ...
Owner's Manual - Page 21
... not work in the ExpressCard slot. About Your Computer
21 Connects devices supporting IEEE 1394 high-speed transfer rates, such as some digital video cameras, hard drives, and optical drives.
I E E E 1 3 9 4 C O N N E C T O R ( F I R E W I A M E M O R Y C A R D R E A D E R - Supports 34- See "Using Cards" on page 81...
Owner's Manual - Page 40
... Disc. 3 To copy the CD, DVD, or BD: • If you have one optical drive, insert the source disc into which you have inserted your computer hard drive. NOTE: Copying a BD-R to make an exact copy of optical drives offered by Dell may vary by country. The computer copies the data from audio files...
Owner's Manual - Page 43
... . NOTE: You cannot reinstall the Dell Media Experience or Dell MediaDirect feature if you voluntarily reformat the hard drive. Contact Dell for additional help information.
If the computer is turned off or in hibernate mode
When your... computer is turned off or in standby mode, either Windows XP Media Center Manager or Dell Media Experience™ launches, depending on your system setup.
Owner's Manual - Page 62
... Blue light blinking slowly Off Off
Standby Mode
Standby mode conserves power by turning off the display and the hard drive after a predetermined period of the following methods:
- or
• Depending on the hard drive and then completely turning off computer, and then click Stand by pressing a key or touching the touch pad if...
Owner's Manual - Page 87
...Windows® desktop. Dell Diagnostics
CAUTION: Before you experience a problem with your hard drive. Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive
The Dell Diagnostics is free and can be awake to recognize the keystroke. See ... can start the Dell Diagnostics from the boot menu and press . NOTE: The keyboard must be customized for technical assistance. If you receive ...
Owner's Manual - Page 88
... and press to run the Dell Diagnostics from the diagnostics utility partition on your system board, keyboard, hard drive, and display.
• During the assessment, answer any key to wait until you receive the message:
Booting Dell Diagnostic Utility Partition. NOTE: If you want to proceed. 6 Select Run the 32 Bit Dell Diagnostics...
Owner's Manual - Page 95
Run the Hard-Disk Drive tests in the Dell Diagnostics.
HARD-DISK DRIVE READ FAILURE - Insert bootable media. The message is most likely to occur after a memory module is trying to boot to nonbootable media. See "Dell Diagnostics" on page 129.
Run the Keyboard Controller test in the Dell Diagnostics.
See "Memory" on page 87. Try...
Owner's Manual - Page 96
...D V A L U E E X P E C T I N G V A L U E - Reinstall the memory modules (see "Memory" on the screen.
5 See the program documentation for instructions.
NO BOOT SECTOR ON HARD DRIVE - See "Contacting Dell" on the hard drive. NO TIMER TICK INTERRUPT -
Close all windows and open the program that you want to open .
Contact Dell.
Run the Windows error-checking utility to ...
Owner's Manual - Page 99
... music and video files have a lock icon next to it runs in the Windows XP operating system environment. NOTICE: You cannot reinstall the Dell MediaDirect feature if you are unable... outside the Windows XP operating system environment, access to use a video enhancement technology that has Digital Rights Management (DRM) applied to them.
If you reformat the hard drive. ADJUSTING THE COLOR...
Owner's Manual - Page 111
...boot sequence without entering system setup. (You can also use this procedure to boot the Dell Diagnostics on the diagnostics utility partition on your hard drive.)
1 Shut down your computer and try again.
4 When the boot...; XPS™ M2010 computer. The computer boots to an electrical outlet. 3 Turn on your computer can only create a RAID level 0 configuration using two physical drives. ...
Owner's Manual - Page 113
...boot process.
and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and press to step 6.
6 Press . In a RAID level 1 configuration, the size of 120 GB on which to migrate existing data, see "Configuring for RAID
At some point you may be used . If you have at least two hard drives... system onto the hard drive. NOTE: Your computer was changed from the surviving drive. The second method...
Owner's Manual - Page 114
.... 5 For RAID 0, press the up - NOTE: For RAID 0 only, if your computer currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option ROM utility, your computer will become... RAID Level 0 or a RAID Level 1 Configuration
NOTICE: You will lose any data on your hard drives when you are reinstalling your operating system.
and down -arrow keys to select RAID0(Stripe), and press...
Owner's Manual - Page 122
...To access the Windows Help and Support Center, see "Windows Help and Support Center" on the hard drive. 5 Double-click the name of the device for which you are installing the driver. 6 ...to an earlier operating state (without
affecting data files. Using Microsoft Windows XP System Restore
The Microsoft Windows XP operating system provides System Restore to the hardware, software, or other system...
Owner's Manual - Page 124
... tab. 5 Ensure that were installed during assembly of free hard-disk space available, System Restore is automatically disabled. See "Using Microsoft Windows XP System Restore" on page 120. Reinstalling Windows XP
The reinstallation process can overwrite files and possibly affect programs installed on your hard drive. The options can take one to two hours to...
Owner's Manual - Page 179
...boot. ASF is able to be independent of the devices from your computer. The length of electrical power allocated to each other. BD recordable - Data can use to start your particular computer. basic input/output system - bit - In case your hard drive...Glossary
Terms in this Glossary are provided for a SATA hard drive Host Controller which allows the storage driver to enable ...
Owner's Manual - Page 185
...be configured and started remotely.
A method of your computer.
Plug-and-Play - POST - processor - pre-boot execution environment -
Some programs essential to specific individuals. Personal Computer Memory Card International Association - A single point... frequency radiations, such as memory, hard drives, and video. ROM - ROM, unlike RAM, retains its vertical frequency).
Owner's Manual - Page 191
See IEEE 1394
G
glossary, 179
H
hard drive troubleshooting, 92
hardware conflicts, 122 Dell Diagnostics, 87
drives, RAID configuration, 111
Hardware Troubleshooter, 122 headphone connector
description, 20 system view, 20 Help and Support Center... vents description, 25 system view, 25
FCC notice, 177 Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard, 66 firewall
Windows XP, 79 firewire
description, 21 firewire.
Owner's Manual - Page 193
regulatory information, 11
reinstalling Windows XP, 122
remote control instructions, 14
resolution setting, 51
ResourceCD, 120 about, 11... 98 computer stops responding, 98 conflicts, 122 Dell Diagnostics, 87 Dell MediaDirect, 99 drives, 91 DVD drive, 91-92 error messages, 94 external keyboard problems, 97 hard drive, 92 Hardware Troubleshooter, 122 Help and Support Center, 13 IEEE 1394, 97 keyboard,...
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