Dell XPS 600 owner manual Setting Up and Using Your Computer

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NOTE: If your computer currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume, your computer will become unbootable.

1Launch Nvidia MediaShield.

2Click to select an array.

3Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane. The Delete Array Wizard appears.

4Click Next.

A confirmation screen will appear with the name and size of the array that you have marked for deletion.

5Click Finish to delete the RAID configuration.

Any other arrays and installed hard drives should be visible in the NVRAID management utility window.

Morphing from a Single Drive RAID 0 Configuration to a Dual Drive RAID Configuration

Follow this procedure if you have added a new hard drive to your computer and want to reconfigure it and your old hard drive into a RAID level 1 configuration without losing any data.

1Launch Nvidia MediaShield.

NOTE: Select your pre-existing hard drive as your source drive (it should be the hard drive containing the data or operating system files that you want to keep on the RAID volume).

2Click to select an array.

3Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane. The Convert Array Wizard appears.

4Click Next.

5Select Mirroring or Striping from the drop-down menu.

6Click Next.

NOTICE: In the following step, you will lose all data contained on the target member drive.

7Select the new hard drive by clicking the checkbox beside it.

8Click Finish.

Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Level 1 Configuration

If your computer has reported a degraded RAID level 1 volume, you can manually rebuild the computer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive by performing the following steps:

1Launch Nvidia MediaShield.

2Click Mirroring in the management utility window.

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