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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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..., see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your computer. If you to manage and improve your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Use options provided to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer's performance. Use the Device Manager to manage devices that are...
..., see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your computer. If you to manage and improve your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. Use options provided to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer's performance. Use the Device Manager to manage devices that are...
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... 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 a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for conducting a System...174; Windows® System Restore" on page 265). Drives and Media 77 To determine how much space is displayed. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start ...
... 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 a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for conducting a System...174; Windows® System Restore" on page 265). Drives and Media 77 To determine how much space is displayed. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start ...
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... this storage area. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to electronic circuitry that refers to store persistent data. The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Unlike flash...-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for...
... this storage area. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to electronic circuitry that refers to store persistent data. The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Unlike flash...-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for...
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Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the device to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the ...media, go to step 2. The drivers used by your system window. HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media If not, go to step 5. 2 When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions on..., stating that 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 the device to your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the ...media, go to step 2. The drivers used by your system window. HINT: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media If not, go to step 5. 2 When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions on..., stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next.
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...different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. 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 - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until the tray is inserted ...drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the drive or the media. 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...
...different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. 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 - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until the tray is inserted ...drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the drive or the media. 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...
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... throughput). • RAID level 1 is recommended for higher performance and fault tolerance. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. otherwise, contact your data. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of...Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Drives and Media 83
... throughput). • RAID level 1 is recommended for higher performance and fault tolerance. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. otherwise, contact your data. If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of...Click Properties→ Tools→ Check Now. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Drives and Media 83
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... striping to enhance data integrity. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to read data while the other drive is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data is written to the primary drive, the data is equal to the size of the smallest... drive multiplied by the number of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. This allows one of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 ...
... striping to enhance data integrity. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to read data while the other drive is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data is written to the primary drive, the data is equal to the size of the smallest... drive multiplied by the number of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. This allows one of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 ...
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... then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . It provides data striping at the byte level...
... then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . It provides data striping at the byte level...
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...8226; "Converting From One RAID Configuration to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for ...system setup program and resume the boot process. Assigning Drives to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your computer (see the following procedure deletes ...
...8226; "Converting From One RAID Configuration to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for ...system setup program and resume the boot process. Assigning Drives to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your computer (see the following procedure deletes ...
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... 8 Press to select Striping. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move the selected drive from the selected drives. The Define a New Array window appears. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to...then use the arrow keys to clear all data on what computer you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . NOTE: To delete an array, use the arrow keys to select ...Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to the RAID Mode field. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the right-arrow key to enter...
... 8 Press to select Striping. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to move the selected drive from the selected drives. The Define a New Array window appears. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to...then use the arrow keys to clear all data on what computer you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . NOTE: To delete an array, use the arrow keys to select ...Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to the RAID Mode field. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the right-arrow key to enter...
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...keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any data you have. Deleting a RAID...Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. The Clearing System Data window appears. Back up any other installed hard drives. Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed Use Nvidia MediaShield to create a RAID configuration only when you are ...
...keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to RAIDEnabled Mode" on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any data you have. Deleting a RAID...Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. The Clearing System Data window appears. Back up any other installed hard drives. Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed Use Nvidia MediaShield to create a RAID configuration only when you are ...
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... the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you have marked for example - Back up any data. A confirmation screen appears with any of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears... are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all...
... the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you have marked for example - Back up any data. A confirmation screen appears with any of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears... are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all...
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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 select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. The ... and displays the status of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you want to rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your system, see...
...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 select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next step. The ... and displays the status of the rebuild. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you want to rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your system, see...
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...RAID volume. Do not use the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you are prompted to select RAID0 (Stripe). and down -... 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"...
...RAID volume. Do not use the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you are prompted to select RAID0 (Stripe). and down -... 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"...
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... the operating system (see "Setting Your Computer to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Click Next...the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to include 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 Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume,...
... the operating system (see "Setting Your Computer to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Click Next...the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to include 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 Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume,...
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...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, ...Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Drives and Media 95 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 ...
...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, ...Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Drives and Media 95 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 ...
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... Actions menu option, you do not see "Setting Your Computer to the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to keep on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ ... 5 Use the up- Your computer boots 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 span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you...
... Actions menu option, you do not see "Setting Your Computer to the operating system and begins rebuilding the RAID volume automatically. This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to keep on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ ... 5 Use the up- Your computer boots 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 span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you...