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Dell XPS GEN 3 Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume, Creating a Spare Hard Drive, Click Mark as Spare

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11Click Finish to start migrating, or click Back to make changes. You can use your computer normally during the migration process.

Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume

1Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see page 19).

2Click the Start button and point to All Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ Intel Application Accelerator to launch the Intel(R) Storage Utility.

NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see page 19).

3On the Actions menu, click Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard.

4Click Next on the first Migration Wizard screen.

5Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default.

6From the drop-down box, select RAID 1 as the RAID level.

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

7On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from which you want to migrate, and click Next.

8On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive to select the member drive that you want to act as the mirror in the array, and click Next.

9On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the volume size you want, and click Next.

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

10Click Finish to start migrating, or click Back to make changes. You can use your computer normally during migration process.

Creating a Spare Hard Drive

A spare hard drive may be created with a RAID 1 array. The spare hard drive will not be recognized by the operating system, but you will be able to see the spare drive from within Disk Manager or the Intel Option ROM Utility. When a member of the RAID 1 array is broken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror array using the spare hard drive as the broken member’s replacement.

To Mark a Drive as a Spare Hard Drive:

1Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ Intel Application Accelerator to launch the Intel(R) Storage Utility.

2Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.

3Click Mark as Spare.

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