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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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... sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your computer. Use options provided to free up text box. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 Managing Your Computer Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. If you to manage and improve your computer's...Maintenance. 2 Select one of the available options in the Task area to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Windows Vista...
... sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your computer. Use options provided to free up text box. Microsoft Windows Desktop 45 Managing Your Computer Performance The Control Panel provides tools for related information. If you to manage and improve your computer's...Maintenance. 2 Select one of the available options in the Task area to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to evaluate system performance, view events, monitor the performance log, or perform computer management. Windows Vista...
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.... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. To determine how much space is available for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 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...
.... Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is displayed. To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. To determine how much space is available for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 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...
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... Media An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ ...
... Media An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press . 7 Click Start → Computer→ ...
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... 2. The drivers used by 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. HINT...: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the...
... 2. The drivers used by 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. HINT...: The drivers for example, Audio or Video). 80 Drives and Media Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for the...
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Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by...3 Gently 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. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I C S - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. Try ...
Problems writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 - See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by...3 Gently 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. R U N THE DELL D I A G N O S T I C S - The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. Try ...
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... in this section. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. If you are... is recommended for and attempt recovery of all data. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to check Scan for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level 5...
... in this section. NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. If you are... is recommended for and attempt recovery of all data. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Your computer may appear. Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to check Scan for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level 5...
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... capacities 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. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data is written to...
... capacities 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. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media When data is written to...
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.... RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Drives and Media 87 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating...
.... RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Drives and Media 87 Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating...
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..." on page 88) or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). Depending on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On,...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 computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 92. and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program ...
..." on page 88) or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drive(s). Depending on your system, see the following procedure deletes all data on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On,...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 computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 92. and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program ...
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... from the Free Disks field to the RAID Mode field. 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 highlight the array in the next step. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you set... return to the previous screen. 11 Press to include in the RAID array. NOTE: The number of the array that you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to exit the RAID BIOS. The Clear disk data prompt appears. Back up -
... from the Free Disks field to the RAID Mode field. 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 highlight the array in the next step. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you set... return to the previous screen. 11 Press to include in the RAID array. NOTE: The number of the array that you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to exit the RAID BIOS. The Clear disk data prompt appears. Back up -
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...adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to 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 have. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next...
...adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you want to 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 have. The Free Disk Selection window appears. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next...
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... to mirrored, for deletion. 5 Click Finish to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. from striped to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the... hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3 Click to select ...
... to mirrored, for deletion. 5 Click Finish to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. from striped to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert an array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the... hard drive being used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 87). 2 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 3 Click to select ...
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... to rebuild by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next...upgrade/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 can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or ...
... to rebuild by clicking the check box beside it. 6 Click Next→ Finish. Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only) If one of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you want to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the next...upgrade/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 can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. • "Configuring a RAID 0 or ...
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...RAID level 0 configuration. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3... 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 level 0 configuration. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure only if you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. 3... 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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..., and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that you perform this operation, all data on...8594; Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Click Next. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. and down -arrow keys to make changes. 94 Drives and Media The default value is the maximum available size. 6 Press to create the volume. 7 Press to ...
..., and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to include in your RAID level 0 volume, and then click the right arrow. 5 Select a second hard drive to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that you perform this operation, all data on...8594; Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Click Next. NOTE: To add a third hard drive in the Selected window. and down -arrow keys to make changes. 94 Drives and Media The default value is the maximum available size. 6 Press to create the volume. 7 Press to ...
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...that the volume status is lost. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID ... click Next. 9 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the new RAID volume. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer. 2 Press when you perform this operation, all ...
...that the volume status is lost. 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see an Actions menu option, you have replaced the failed hard drive (see the appropriate "Drives" section for your computer). 1 Turn on or restart your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID ... click Next. 9 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the new RAID volume. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have not yet set your computer. 2 Press when you perform this operation, all ...
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... 7 Select the appropriate stripe size from the drop-down box, select RAID 0 as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From ...computer boots to select Exit, and then press . Migrating 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, select the Volume Size you ...
... 7 Select the appropriate stripe size from the drop-down box, select RAID 0 as your stripe size. 8 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from which you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode. 3 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume From ...computer boots to select Exit, and then press . Migrating 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, select the Volume Size you ...