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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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... the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in the Task area to monitor 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 ...are 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 computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or...
... the Control Panel FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about the Windows desktop, see "Windows Basics" in the Task area to monitor 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 ...are 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 computer's performance and make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in or...
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... storage devices appears. To determine how much space is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is displayed. 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 space for conducting a System Restore...
... storage devices appears. To determine how much space is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is displayed. 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 space for conducting a System Restore...
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... this storage 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. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the... following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press ....
... this storage 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. 3 Click Run as administrator. 4 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue. 5 Type the... following : vssadmin list shadowstorage. 6 Press . Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. NOTE: See Windows Help and Support for information on optimum and minimum sizes for Shadow Storage] 6 Press ....
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... Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions on the screen. A message appears, stating that the Drivers and Utilities media is your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for the device...Utilities media, go to restart the computer. 4 When you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for which you want to Reinstall a Driver 1 With the Windows...
... Utilities media installation program starts, follow the instructions on the screen. A message appears, stating that the Drivers and Utilities media is your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for the device...Utilities media, go to restart the computer. 4 When you see the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Manually Reinstalling a Driver 1 Download the driver for which you want to Reinstall a Driver 1 With the Windows...
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... writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 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 . 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 C S - The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by a program. • Ensure that the computer is shut down. 2 Straighten...
... writing to room temperature before turning it stops. 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 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 . 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 C S - The drive makes a scraping or grinding sound • Ensure that the sound is not caused by a program. • Ensure that the computer is shut down. 2 Straighten...
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...For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for and attempt recovery of all data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. There are an administrator on the ... performance and data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50...
...For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Perform regular backups to protect your administrator to continue the desired action. 4 Click to check Scan for and attempt recovery of all data. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. There are an administrator on the ... performance and data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; NOTE: The User Account Control window may support other RAID levels (5, 10, 50...
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..., the size of the configuration is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. This allows one of the drives to read data while the other drive is equal to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the...
..., the size of the configuration is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives and Media Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of hard drive space on the second drive in the configuration. This allows one of the drives to read data while the other drive is equal to provide 240 GB of data sequentially across the...
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...(see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction ...information (rotating parity array). and down -arrow keys to store data. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. Also, because data is...
...(see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable hard drive, and then press . Drives and Media 87 RAID level 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. It provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction ...information (rotating parity array). and down -arrow keys to store data. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. and down -arrow keys to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity. Also, because data is...
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...or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer 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 did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. Configuring RAID Your computer can be...the following procedure deletes all data on your computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to keep before or...
...or Intel (see "Setting Your Computer 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 did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. Configuring RAID Your computer can be...the following procedure deletes all data on your computer (see "Using the Intel® RAID Utilities" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media NOTE: Hard drives in a RAID configuration should be done before continuing. 1 Enable RAID for RAID, even if you want to keep before or...
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... . NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to move the selected drive from the selected drives. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the RAID array and then use the arrow keys to select the array and ... Press to select Striping. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in the next step. and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to...
... . NOTE: The number of the array that you have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to move the selected drive from the selected drives. Repeat these steps for each RAID array varies, depending on the selected drives in the RAID array and then use the arrow keys to select the array and ... Press to select Striping. The Array List window appears. 9 To review the details of drives supported in each disk you see the Microsoft Windows desktop, and then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in the next step. and down your computer and try again. 4 Press to...
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... 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that 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. Back up the RAID...
... 87). 2 After restarting your hard drive(s). NOTE: Only RAID-enabled hard drives are listed as free disks. 7 Click to select the drives that 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. Back up the RAID...
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... array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used in the array must be no smaller than any of the drives in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you can change the current state of the array that all data... are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. Back up any data. NOTICE: If your computer currently boots to RAID and you ...
... array depends on several factors, such as the speed of the processor, the type and size of the hard drive being used in the array must be no smaller than any of the drives in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you can change the current state of the array that all data... are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the volume. Converting From One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert. 4 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. Back up any data. NOTICE: If your computer currently boots to RAID and you ...
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..., select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the... 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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays...
..., select Mirroring or Striping from the dropdown menu. 7 Click Next. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays the status of the hard drives in a RAID 1 array fails, you can use your RAID configuration (Mirroring) in the management utility window. 3 Select Rebuild Array in the... 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 computer while the computer is rebuilding the array. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and displays...
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...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" on your operating system. For RAID 0 a Press the up - Drives and Media 93 Do not use the following procedure only if you are reinstalling your hard drives when you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the RAID volume. NOTICE: Use the following procedure...
...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" on your operating system. For RAID 0 a Press the up - Drives and Media 93 Do not use the following procedure only if you are reinstalling your hard drives when you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the RAID volume. NOTICE: Use the following procedure...
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...select 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 include in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system...to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include 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 Click Finish to create the volume, or click...
...select 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 include in your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to select Exit and press . 10 Install the operating system...to create the volume. 7 Press to confirm that you want to include 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 Click Finish to create the volume, or click...
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...8594; Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have replaced the failed hard drive (see an Actions menu option, 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,...
...8594; Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. Recovering From a Single Hard Drive Failure (RAID 1) NOTE: Perform the following steps only after you have replaced the failed hard drive (see an Actions menu option, 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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... 128 KB as the RAID level. 7 Select the appropriate stripe size from which you want to select Exit, and then press . This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name...Actions menu option, you want to keep on the RAID volume. 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 migrate, and click Next. Your computer boots to span the stripe array, and click Next. ...
... 128 KB as the RAID level. 7 Select the appropriate stripe size from which you want to select Exit, and then press . This drive should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to RAID-Enabled Mode" on the Migration Wizard screen. 5 Enter a RAID volume name...Actions menu option, you want to keep on the RAID volume. 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 migrate, and click Next. Your computer boots to span the stripe array, and click Next. ...