Dell XPS 600 - Manual (Page 26)

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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.
1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield.
2 Click to select an array.
3 Click Delete Array in the System Tasks pane.
The Delete Array Wizard appears.
4 Click Next.
A confirmation screen will appear with the name and size of the array that you have marked
for deletion.
5 Click 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.
1 Launch 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).
2 Click to select an array.
3 Click Convert Array in the System Tasks pane.
The Convert Array Wizard appears.
4 Click Next.
5 Select Mirroring or Striping from the drop-down menu.
6 Click Next.
NOTICE:
In the following step, you will lose all data contained on the target member drive.
7 Select the new hard drive by clicking the checkbox beside it.
8 Click 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:
1 Launch Nvidia MediaShield.
2 Click Mirroring in the management utility window.