Dell XPS/Dimension XPS Gen 4 User Manual
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Setting Up and Using Your Computer
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4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press
5 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror), and press
6 If there are more than two hard disks available, use the up- and down-arrow keys and space bar
to select the two disks you want to use to make up your array, and then press
7 Select the desired capacity for the volume, and press
maximum available size.
8 Press
9 Press
10 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main Intel Option ROM
screen.
11 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit, and press
12 Install the operating system (see "Reinstalling Microsoft
Deleting a RAID Volume
NOTE:
When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost.
NOTE:
If your computer currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option
ROM, your computer will become unbootable.
1 Press
2 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Delete RAID Volume, and press
3 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight the RAID volume you want to delete, and press
4 Press
5 Press
Configuring for RAID Using the Intel(R) Application Accelerator
If you already have one hard drive with the operating system installed on it, and you want to add a
second hard drive and reconfigure both drives into a RAID volume without losing the existing
operating system and any data, you need to use the migrating option (see "Migrating to a RAID 0
Volume" on page 23 or "Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume" on page 24). Create a RAID 0 Volume or
RAID 1 Volume only when:
•
You are adding two new drives to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system
is on the single drive), and you want to configure the two new drives into a RAID volume.
•
You already have a two-hard drive computer configured into an array, but you still have some
space left on the array that you want to designate as a second RAID volume.