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... Device 64 Keyboard 65 Customizing Your Keyboard 66 Backlit Keyboard 66 Changing the Input Language of Your Keyboard 67 Using the Numeric Keypad on a Laptop Computer 68 General Keyboard Shortcuts 69 5 Printers-Settings and Drivers 71 Accessing Printer Information 71 Changing Printer Settings 72 For Windows Vista 72 For 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
... Device 64 Keyboard 65 Customizing Your Keyboard 66 Backlit Keyboard 66 Changing the Input Language of Your Keyboard 67 Using the Numeric Keypad on a Laptop Computer 68 General Keyboard Shortcuts 69 5 Printers-Settings and Drivers 71 Accessing Printer Information 71 Changing Printer Settings 72 For Windows Vista 72 For 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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... 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 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your...
... 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 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your...
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... 126 Cleaning the Computer 126 Cleaning Optical Drives and Optical Drive Media 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® 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...
... 126 Cleaning the Computer 126 Cleaning Optical Drives and Optical Drive Media 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® 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...
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..., and so on your hard drive to make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Managing Your Computer Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in...
..., and so on your hard drive to make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Managing Your Computer Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. Accessing and Using the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in...
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... much space is displayed. Drives and Media 77 Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions,...drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. The free space on the hard drive for other standard operations. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer...
... much space is displayed. Drives and Media 77 Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions,...drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs→ Accessories. 2 Right-click Command Prompt. The free space on the hard drive for other standard operations. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer...
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... continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of space used by ...-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that ...
... continue, click Continue. 5 Type the following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of space used by ...-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ Local Disk (C:) to confirm that ...
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... 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 which you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next.
... 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 which 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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...Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. 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 - 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 C S - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive...pull out the tray until it on page 281. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is...
...Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. 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 - 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 C S - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive...pull out the tray until it on page 281. A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVD drives. See the help files for drives that are not slot-loading) 1 Ensure that the disc is...
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... for higher performance (faster throughput). • RAID level 1 is recommended for users who need a high level of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Drives and Media 83 Perform regular backups to check Scan for and attempt recovery of all data. otherwise, contact...
... for higher performance (faster throughput). • RAID level 1 is recommended for users who need a high level of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Drives and Media 83 Perform regular backups to check Scan for and attempt recovery of all data. otherwise, contact...
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...the next block. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. This allows one...size of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of the configuration is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of ...
...the next block. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. This allows one...size of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to store data. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of the configuration is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of ...
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... RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the...This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Drives and Media 87 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 ...
... RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the...This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Drives and Media 87 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 ...
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... data on page 92. 4 Press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your computer, you want to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your hard drive(s). and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and...
... data on page 92. 4 Press the left - Using the NVIDIA Utilities If installed on your computer, you want to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System NOTICE: The following sections for each applicable hard drive on your hard drive(s). and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and...
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...you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to select Striping. Back up - NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to clear all data on what computer you want to exit the RAID... BIOS. and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to enter the RAID BIOS....
...you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to select Striping. Back up - NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to clear all data on what computer you want to exit the RAID... BIOS. and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to navigate to enter the RAID BIOS....
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...The Clear System Data option deletes all data on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to create the RAID configuration. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drive. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists... a RAID configuration only when you 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 other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume...
...The Clear System Data option deletes all data on your hard drives (see "Setting Your Computer to create the RAID configuration. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drive. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists... a RAID configuration only when you 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 other installed hard drives. Deleting a RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume...
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... boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume, your computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you can change the current state of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management ... example - Also, you want to be used in the array must be no smaller than any of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size ...
... boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume, your computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you can change the current state of a disk or array - NOTICE: Additional hard drives to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. The MediaShield RAID management ... example - Also, you want to be used in the array must be no smaller than any of the hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size ...
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...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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. 6 Under RAID Mode Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next.... Back up any other installed hard drives. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your system, see the ...
...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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. 6 Under RAID Mode Selection, select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next.... Back up any other installed hard drives. Using the Intel® RAID Utilities If installed on your system, see the ...
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... 0 configuration. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your stripe size. For RAID 0 a Press the up - If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration... 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"...
... 0 configuration. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your stripe size. For RAID 0 a Press the up - If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration... 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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...window. The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to make changes. 94 Drives and Media NOTE: If you do not see "Restoring Your Operating System" on the RAID drives will be lost. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled... mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install ...
...window. The selected hard drives appear in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to make changes. 94 Drives and Media NOTE: If you do not see "Restoring Your Operating System" on the RAID drives will be lost. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled... mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install ...
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... 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 VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press . 4 Under Disk/Volume Information, confirm that the...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 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID ...
... 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 VOLUME DETECTED, confirm that the new (non-RAID) drive is listed and then press . 4 Under Disk/Volume Information, confirm that the...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 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID ...
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...file you have not yet set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to migrate, and click Next. NOTE: You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you want to RAID-...Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to store 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,...
...file you have not yet set your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from the drop-down -arrow keys to migrate, and click Next. NOTE: You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you want to RAID-...Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to store 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,...