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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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... Basics" in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make changes to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or attached to evaluate system performance, view events...
... Basics" in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make changes to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or attached to evaluate system performance, view events...
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... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) 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. 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 page 265). To determine...
... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) 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. 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 page 265). To determine...
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... 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. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is...
... 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. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is...
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Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device... appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. HINT: The drivers for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers... and Utilities media is your computer are installing the driver (for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the device to Reinstall a Driver 1 With the...
Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device... appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. HINT: The drivers for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers... and Utilities media is your computer are installing the driver (for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the device to Reinstall a Driver 1 With the...
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... until it on page 281. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the tray until the tray is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on .
... until it on page 281. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is partially ejected. 3 Gently pull out the tray until the tray is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on .
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...four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. The number of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level...• RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Therefore, a...
...four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. The number of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level...• RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). Therefore, a...
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... striping to enhance data integrity. This allows one of both drives. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring...
... striping to enhance data integrity. This allows one of both drives. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring...
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...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 highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and... write operations are directed to store data. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data...
...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 highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and... write operations are directed to store data. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data...
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... (RAID 1 only)" on page 92) programs 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 RAID-Enabled Mode" on your computer (see "Setting Your Computer to exit... program and resume the boot process. Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your hard drive(s). NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be configured for information about using the NVIDIA utilities. • "Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System" on page 88. •...
... (RAID 1 only)" on page 92) programs 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 RAID-Enabled Mode" on your computer (see "Setting Your Computer to exit... program and resume the boot process. Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your hard drive(s). NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be configured for information about using the NVIDIA utilities. • "Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System" on page 88. •...
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... to wait until 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 . The Array Detail window appears. Drives and Media 89 and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to the Array Disks field...appears. The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you set up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: To delete an array, use the arrow keys to select the ...
... to wait until 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 . The Array Detail window appears. Drives and Media 89 and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to the Array Disks field...appears. The Clear disk data prompt appears. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you set up any data you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to enter the RAID BIOS. NOTE: To delete an array, use the arrow keys to select the ...
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...array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that 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... a partition, and leaves any data you have. The Clearing System Data window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to create the RAID configuration. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then...
...array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that 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... a partition, and leaves any data you have. The Clearing System Data window appears. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to create the RAID configuration. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then...
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...any remaining arrays along with the name and size of a disk or array - Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Also, you want to keep before continuing. The time to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the ...speed of the processor, the type and size of the drives in the System Tasks pane. Back up any other installed hard drives. A confirmation screen appears with any data you can change the current state of the array that all data on ...
...any remaining arrays along with the name and size of a disk or array - Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. Also, you want to keep before continuing. The time to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the ...speed of the processor, the type and size of the drives in the System Tasks pane. Back up any other installed hard drives. A confirmation screen appears with any data you can change the current state of the array that all data on ...
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...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the next step. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 ... clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Back up any other installed hard drives. 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...
...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 rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in the next step. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 ... clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Back up any other installed hard drives. 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...
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...system. NOTE: Select the stripe size closest to the size of the average file that you want to change the stripe size and press . Drives and Media 93 and down-arrow keys to keep before continuing. • "Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration 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 your...
...system. NOTE: Select the stripe size closest to the size of the average file that you want to change the stripe size and press . Drives and Media 93 and down-arrow keys to keep before continuing. • "Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration 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 your...
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... click the Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes. 94 Drives and Media The selected hard drives appear in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system (see... the 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 RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and...
... click the Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes. 94 Drives and Media The selected hard drives appear in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system (see... the 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 RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and...
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..., 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,.... 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press . 4 Under Disk/Volume Information, confirm that the volume status is Rebuild. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have ...
..., 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,.... 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press . 4 Under Disk/Volume Information, confirm that the volume status is Rebuild. Drives and Media 95 Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have ...
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... within the operating system. 5 Use the up- and 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 box, and then click Next. Migrating to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is ...stripe size from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From ...
... within the operating system. 5 Use the up- and 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 box, and then click Next. Migrating to a RAID Level 0 Configuration 1 Set your computer while the computer is ...stripe size from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard. 4 Click Next on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 From ...