Dell Vostro 400, Owner'S Manual

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Setting Up and Using Your Computer
3
On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create
RAID Volume Wizard.
4
Click Next at the first screen.
5
Confirm the volume name, select RAID 1 as the RAID level, and then
click Next to continue.
6
On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want
to use to create your RAID 1 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click
a second hard drive until two drives appear in the
Selected window, and
then click Next .
7
In the Specify Volume Size window, select the Volume Size desired and
click Next .
8
Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes.
9
Follow the operating system procedures for creating a partition on the new
RAID volume.
Deleting a RAID Volume
NOTE:
While this procedure deletes the RAID 1 volume, it also splits the RAID 1
volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data
files intact.
1
Launch the Intel Storage Utility:
• In Windows XP , click Start
→
All Programs
→
Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Manager
→
Intel Matrix Storage Console.
• In Windows Vista , click Start
→
Programs
→
Intel
®
Matrix
Storage Manager
→
Intel Matrix Storage Manager .
2
Right-click the Volume icon of the RAID volume you want to delete, and
select Delete Volume .
3
On the Delete RAID Volume Wizard screen, click Next .
4
Highlight the RAID volume you want to delete in the Available box, click
the right-arrow button to move the highlighted RAID volume into the
Selected box, and then click Next .
5
Click Finish to delete the volume.