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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 evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION... learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in or attached to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the...
...Windows Vista 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System and Maintenance→ Performance Information and Tools. 2 Select one of your hard drive to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION... learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in or attached to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your computer. See "Maintenance Tasks (Enhance Performance and Ensure Security)" on to enhance the performance of the...
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...; Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media 77 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...
...; Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. Drives and Media 77 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...
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... space you will allow for this storage area. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is built entirely out 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. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. 3 Click Run as administrator...
... space you will allow for this storage area. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is built entirely out 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. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. 3 Click Run as administrator...
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... Windows desktop displayed, insert the Drivers and Utilities media. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to your computer. 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 additionally installed devices may not be included... the computer. 4 When you want to step 2. 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.
... Windows desktop displayed, insert the Drivers and Utilities media. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to your computer. 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 additionally installed devices may not be included... the computer. 4 When you want to step 2. 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.
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...media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T O N - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives ... the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. The drive makes a scraping or ...drive or the media. 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 E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive...
...media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T O N - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. RUN CHECK DISK - 82 Drives ... the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is inserted properly. The drive makes a scraping or ...drive or the media. 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 E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive...
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If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer...Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer....
If you are four basic RAID levels discussed in the loss of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer...Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. For Windows® XP: Click Start → My Computer....
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... striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of both drives. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to store data. When data...
... striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of both drives. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to store data. When data...
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... level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). Also, because data is 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 - RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level ...5 uses data parity. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both...
... level and also stripe error correction information (rotating parity array). Also, because data is 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 - RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level ...5 uses data parity. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . RAID level 5 stripes both...
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... highlight Save/Exit, and then press to create and manage RAID arrays. Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , ...press the left - 4 Press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to keep ...
... highlight Save/Exit, and then press to create and manage RAID arrays. Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your hard drive(s). Back up any data you want to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , ...press the left - 4 Press the left - NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be of equal size to keep ...
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... . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to select Striping. NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to highlight the array in the Array Detail window and press . The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of... navigate to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up any data you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you set up, use the arrow...
... . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to select Striping. NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to highlight the array in the Array Detail window and press . The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of... navigate to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up any data you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in each disk you want to keep before continuing. 8 Press to clear all data on what computer you set up, use the arrow...
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... adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to select the drives that are listed as free disks. 7 Click to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: The following procedure ... that will make up any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drive(s). NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1). 6 Click Next...
... adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to select the drives that are listed as free disks. 7 Click to configure the new drive(s) into two non-RAID hard drives with any other installed hard drives. NOTICE: The following procedure ... that will make up any data you want to keep before continuing. 1 Enable RAID on your hard drive(s). NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1). 6 Click Next...
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...Ensure that you have marked for example - Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer...screen appears with any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any other installed hard drives. without losing any data you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in...
...Ensure that you have marked for example - Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to an existing array. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer...screen appears with any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the hard drive being used, and the operating system. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists any other installed hard drives. without losing any data you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in...
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... 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 can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your RAID...Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you want to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities...
... 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 can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your RAID...Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you want to include in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities...
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...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 want to store on the RAID volume. Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE...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 ...
...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 want to store on the RAID volume. Configuring a RAID 0 or RAID 1 Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE...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 ...
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.... 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...2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. The selected hard drives appear 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 ...
.... 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...2 Click Start→ Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. The selected hard drives appear 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 ...
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... you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer. 2 Press when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press ...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, ...
... you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer. 2 Press when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3 Under DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press ...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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... an Actions menu option, 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 the ... Media Your computer boots to migrate, and click Next. NOTE: You can use your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to store on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ ...
... an Actions menu option, 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 the ... Media Your computer boots to migrate, and click Next. NOTE: You can use your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to store on page 87). 2 Click Start→ All Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ ...