Dell XPS 600 Renegade Owner's Manual - Page 26
Delete Array, System Tasks, Delete Array Wizard, Finish, Convert Array, Mirroring, Striping
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www.dell.com | support.dell.com 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. 26 Setting Up and Using Your Computer