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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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...Windows Vista 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System and Maintenance→ Performance Information and Tools. 2 Select one of your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about ...(Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the options to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. Use the Device Manager to manage devices that are not sure which category contains the necessary ...
...Windows Vista 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System and Maintenance→ Performance Information and Tools. 2 Select one of your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about ...(Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the options to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. Use the Device Manager to manage devices that are not sure which category contains the necessary ...
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.... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB...
.... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for conducting a System Restore (see "Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore" on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB...
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... allow for this storage area. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. 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...
... allow for this storage area. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. 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...
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... When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions 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 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. If not, go to restart the computer. 4 When you are installing the driver (for that device. 6 ...
... When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions 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 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. If not, go to restart the computer. 4 When you are installing the driver (for that device. 6 ...
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...Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. 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 partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the... page 281. 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 - RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound...
...Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. 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 partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the... page 281. 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 - RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound...
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... the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Drives and Media 83 The number of bad sectors, and then click Start. otherwise, contact your data. Working...
... the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Drives and Media 83 The number of bad sectors, and then click Start. otherwise, contact your data. Working...
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...rate. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to create a large virtual... drive. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates...
...rate. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to create a large virtual... drive. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates...
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... 360-GB on page 308). 2 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to store data. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID ...the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance....
... 360-GB on page 308). 2 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to store data. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID ...the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. Drives and Media 87 and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance....
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... "Setting Your Computer to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). and right-arrow keys to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your computer, ... 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to create and manage RAID arrays. Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on page...
... "Setting Your Computer to keep before or after the operating system is installed. Back up any data you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). and right-arrow keys to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your computer, ... 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to create and manage RAID arrays. Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on page...
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...: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the Array Detail window and press . Back up any data you set up - The Array...to clear all data on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to highlight the array in the next step. Drives and Media 89 The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Define a New Array window appears. To create a RAID 0 configuration...
...: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the Array Detail window and press . Back up any data you set up - The Array...to clear all data on what computer you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to highlight the array in the next step. Drives and Media 89 The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Define a New Array window appears. To create a RAID 0 configuration...
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...up any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ Finish to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any existing data intact. 90 Drives and Media The Free Disk Selection window appears. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click... Next again. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Create Array Wizard screen appears and lists the disks that will make up any data you want to keep before continuing...
...up any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ Finish to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any existing data intact. 90 Drives and Media The Free Disk Selection window appears. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click... Next again. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Create Array Wizard screen appears and lists the disks that will make up any data you want to keep before continuing...
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...volume, your computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you can change the current state of the hard drive being used in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and .... 4 Click Convert Array in the array must be used , and the operating system. Drives and Media 91 The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. without losing any other installed hard drives. Back up any of the array that all data on several factors, such as the ...
...volume, your computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you can change the current state of the hard drive being used in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any remaining arrays along with the name and .... 4 Click Convert Array in the array must be used , and the operating system. Drives and Media 91 The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. without losing any other installed hard drives. Back up any of the array that all data on several factors, such as the ...
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...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 include in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the rebuild.... Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the hard drives in the next step. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your system, see the following sections for information about using 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 include in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the rebuild.... Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the hard drives in the next step. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your system, see the following sections for information about using the...
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...if you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up data that you do not know the ... 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). If ...
...if you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Press the up data that you do not know the ... 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). If ...
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... Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. The default value is displayed on page 265). and down -arrow keys to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating... volume. 7 Press to confirm that 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 launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first...
... Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. The default value is displayed on page 265). and down -arrow keys to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating... volume. 7 Press to confirm that 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 launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first...
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...RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you perform this operation, all data on 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, ...
...RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you perform this operation, all data on 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, ...
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...on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the RAID volume. ...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 a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume. NOTE: You ...
...on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the RAID volume. ...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 a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume. NOTE: You ...