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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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...XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of the available options in the Task area to monitor your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. If you to manage and improve your computer. Windows Vista 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System ... desktop, see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows...
...XP 1 Click Start →Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Select one of the available options in the Task area to monitor your hard drive to make changes to enhance performance. If you to manage and improve your computer. Windows Vista 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System ... desktop, see "Windows Basics" in or attached to your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows...
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...the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. To determine how much space is displayed. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All... Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on page 265). The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is ...
...the remaining space for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. To determine how much space is displayed. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All... Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on page 265). The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is ...
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Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static .... 5 Type the following : vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. The Command Prompt displays the amount of a flash memory, is an electrical term that refers to electronic...
Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that is built entirely out of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. An SSD using SRAM (Static .... 5 Type the following : vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /Maxsize=[the maximum space you will allow for this storage area. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. The Command Prompt displays the amount of a flash memory, is an electrical term that refers to electronic...
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... the driver (for which you are automatically displayed in the My Drivers-The Drivers and Utilities media has identified these components in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for example, Audio ... is your system window. A message appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If this is detecting hardware in your first time to use the Drivers and Utilities media, go to step 5....
... the driver (for which you are automatically displayed in the My Drivers-The Drivers and Utilities media has identified these components in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for example, Audio ... is your system window. A message appears, stating that you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. If this is detecting hardware in your first time to use the Drivers and Utilities media, go to step 5....
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... different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. 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 T O N - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in...
... different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives and Media Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - NOTE: Because of the drive, and then push firmly until it on page 281. 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 T O N - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in...
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...drive results in this section. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. otherwise, contact your data. For information about these levels, see support.dell...may appear. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Drives and Media 83 If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. ...
...drive results in this section. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for higher performance and fault tolerance. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer. otherwise, contact your data. For information about these levels, see support.dell...may appear. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Drives and Media 83 If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of bad sectors, and then click Start. ...
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... example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data... mirroring to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of the drives to enhance data integrity. This allows one...
... example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data... mirroring to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of the drives to enhance data integrity. This allows one...
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...fault tolerance. 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 . RAID level 5 stripes both data and... parity information across three or more drives. It provides data striping at the byte level...
...fault tolerance. 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 . RAID level 5 stripes both data and... parity information across three or more drives. It provides data striping at the byte level...
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... keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for RAID, even if you will use either the NVIDIA (see "...keys to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. This can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on your computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87)....
... keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for each hard drive. Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for RAID, even if you will use either the NVIDIA (see "...keys to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. This can be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for each applicable hard drive on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on your computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87)....
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The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous ... clear all data on what computer you want to include in the RAID array and then use the arrow keys to move the selected drive from the selected drives. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys...
The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to an array, press . To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous ... clear all data on what computer you want to include in the RAID array and then use the arrow keys to move the selected drive from the selected drives. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys...
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... Next. NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data on what computer you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The Free Disk Selection window appears. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed...
... Next. NOTICE: The following procedure deletes all data on what computer you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on page 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). The Free Disk Selection window appears. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed...
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.... The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any of a ...in the System Tasks pane. The time to keep before continuing. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be no smaller than any other installed hard drives. Drives and Media 91 The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next....processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. Also, you can change the current state of the...
.... The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. NOTICE: Deleting a RAID 0 volume destroys all drives to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any of a ...in the System Tasks pane. The time to keep before continuing. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be no smaller than any other installed hard drives. Drives and Media 91 The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next....processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. Also, you can change the current state of 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 select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in a RAID 1 array fails,... RAID Mode Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: You lose all data on page 93. 92 Drives and Media Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your computer while the computer is rebuilding the array...
.../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 a RAID 1 array fails,... RAID Mode Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Back up any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: You lose all data on page 93. 92 Drives and Media Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your computer while the computer is rebuilding the array...
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...the following procedure. Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any data on your hard drives when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your ...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" ...
...the following procedure. Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: You lose any data on your hard drives when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your ...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" ...
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...Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes. 94 Drives and Media NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. Click Next. Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to...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" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix...
...Volume Size desired, and then click Next. 7 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes. 94 Drives and Media NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. Click Next. Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you want to...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" on page 87). 2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix...
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.... Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is Rebuild. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3..., 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, ...
.... Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration With the Operating System Installed NOTE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives is Rebuild. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3..., 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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... 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 -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want , and click Next. 96...you do not see an Actions menu option, you want to keep 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 RAID-Enabled Mode" on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 ...
... 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 -arrow keys to select Exit, and then press . This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want , and click Next. 96...you do not see an Actions menu option, you want to keep 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 RAID-Enabled Mode" on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default. 6 ...