Dell XPS /Dimension Gen 5 Owner's Manual

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26 Setting Up and Using Your Computerw w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m Creating a Spare Hard DriveA spare hard drive may be created with a RAID level 1 configuration. The spare hard drive willnot be recognized by the operating system, but you will be able to see the spare drive fromwithin Disk Manager or the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. When a member of the RAIDlevel 1 configuration is broken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror configurationusing the spare hard drive as the broken member’s replacement.To Mark a Drive as a Spare Hard Drive:1 Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ IntelMatrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel® Storage Utility.2 Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.3 Click Mark as Spare.To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive:1 Right-click the spare hard drive icon.2 Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAIDRebuilding a Degraded RAID Level 1 ConfigurationIf your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has reported a degradedRAID level 1 volume, you can manually rebuild the computer’s redundancy mirror to a new harddrive by performing the following steps:1 Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ IntelMatrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel® Storage Utility.2 Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the RAID level 1 volume,and click Rebuild to this Disk.3 You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID level 1 volume.Transferring Information to a New ComputerThe Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system provides a Files and Settings Transfer wizard tomove data from the source computer to the new computer. You can move data such as:• E-mails• Toolbar settings• Window sizes• Internet bookmarksYou can transfer the data to the new computer over a network or serial connection, or you canstore it on a removable medium, such as a writable CD or floppy disk.D8659bk0.book Page 26 Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:18 AM