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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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... not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to your computer. If you to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so...
... not sure which category contains the necessary tool, hold your cursor over the category to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make changes to your computer. If you to manage and improve your computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so...
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...space is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. 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... page 265). Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All ...
...space is displayed. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. 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... page 265). Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All ...
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...(C:) to confirm that is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that less drive space has been allocated to store persistent data. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 ...area. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is built entirely out of a flash memory, is a data storage device...
...(C:) to confirm that is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that less drive space has been allocated to store persistent data. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 ...area. An SSD using SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) or DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), instead of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is built entirely out of a flash memory, is a data storage device...
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... the driver for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers and Utilities media is 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 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 A message appears, stating that you want to reinstall and follow the prompts on the screen...
... the driver for that device. 6 Click the driver that the Drivers and Utilities media is 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 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 A message appears, stating that you want to reinstall and follow the prompts on the screen...
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... disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . 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 - The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is...
... disc is normal and may prevent the operating system from starting. The drive tray cannot eject (for your CD, DVD, or BD software. Optical Drive Problems NOTE: High-speed optical drive vibration is inserted properly. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . 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 - The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is...
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...5 is recommended for and attempt recovery of independent disks (RAID) is recommended for users who need a high level of all data. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Perform regular backups to check Scan for higher... is recommended for higher performance (faster throughput). • RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com.
...5 is recommended for and attempt recovery of independent disks (RAID) is recommended for users who need a high level of all data. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. Perform regular backups to check Scan for higher... is recommended for higher performance (faster throughput). • RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com.
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... writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media RAID 1 sacrifices high data-... size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. This allows one of both drives. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or...
... writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is equal to the primary drive, the data is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media RAID 1 sacrifices high data-... size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives in the configuration. This allows one of both drives. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to read data while the other drive is also duplicated, or...
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...and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. Drives and Media 87 A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault ... must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating ...
...and write operations are directed to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. Drives and Media 87 A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. This results in excellent performance and good fault ... must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight Drives, and then press . 3 Press the up - It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information (rotating ...
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... you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see the following sections for each hard drive. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, ...8226; "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be configured for each applicable hard drive on your system, see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program ...
... you will use either the NVIDIA (see "Using the NVIDIA Utilities" on page 88) or Intel (see the following sections for each hard drive. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then press to highlight RAID On, and then press . 5 Repeat the process, ...8226; "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be configured for each applicable hard drive on your system, see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and right-arrow keys to exit the system setup program ...
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...use the arrow keys to highlight the array in the RAID array. NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the Array Detail window and press . The Array Detail window appears. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait ...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 the next step. Back up - Drives and Media 89 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to the Array Disks field. To create a RAID 0 configuration, ...
...use the arrow keys to highlight the array in the RAID array. NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to include in the Array Detail window and press . The Array Detail window appears. NOTE: If the operating system logo appears, continue to wait ...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 the next step. Back up - Drives and Media 89 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to the Array Disks field. To create a RAID 0 configuration, ...
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.... 8 Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drive(s). Back up any other installed hard drives. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. Deleting a ...RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring ...
.... 8 Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. NOTE: The number of drives supported in each RAID array varies, depending on your hard drive(s). Back up any other installed hard drives. Back up the RAID configuration, click Next, and then click Next again. Deleting a ...RAID Array Deleting a RAID 1 volume splits the volume into a RAID array. NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are available for configuration. 4 Click Next→ Custom→ Next. 5 Use the drop-down box to select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring ...
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...for deletion. 5 Click Finish to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any other installed hard drives. Back up any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the array that all data on the volume. The MediaShield RAID management ...computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you want to be no smaller than any data. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used , and the operating system. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. NOTICE:...
...for deletion. 5 Click Finish to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. A confirmation screen appears with any other installed hard drives. Back up any remaining arrays along with the name and size of the array that all data on the volume. The MediaShield RAID management ...computer will not boot. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select the array you want to be no smaller than any data. NOTICE: Additional hard drives to be used in the array must be used , and the operating system. The NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. NOTICE:...
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..., select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Back up any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. ... want to keep before continuing. 8 Under Free Disk Selection, click the check box next to the hard drive(s) you want to rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window...
..., select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. Back up any other installed hard drives. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard screen appears. 4 Click Next. 5 Select the hard drive you can use your system, see the following sections for information about using the Intel utilities. ... want to keep before continuing. 8 Under Free Disk Selection, click the check box next to the hard drive(s) you want to rebuild by restoring the data to a replacement drive. 1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield. 2 Click to select your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window...
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... 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 highlight Create RAID Volume, and press... You lose any data on page 87). 2 Press when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as 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. ...
... 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 highlight Create RAID Volume, and press... You lose any data on page 87). 2 Press when you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as 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. ...
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...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... Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that you perform this operation, all data on page 265). Creating a RAID Level 0 ...
...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... Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard, and then click Next. 4 On the Select Volume Location screen, select the first hard drive you want to create the RAID volume. 8 Confirm that you perform this operation, all data on page 265). Creating a RAID Level 0 ...
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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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...file you want to store on the RAID volume. Migrating to 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 the size of Rebuild are rebuilt within the operating system. 5 Use the up- The stripe size... the data or operating system files that 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 span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you want...
...file you want to store on the RAID volume. Migrating to 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 the size of Rebuild are rebuilt within the operating system. 5 Use the up- The stripe size... the data or operating system files that 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 span the stripe array, and click Next. 10 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the Volume Size you want...
