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Setting Up and Using Your Computer
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11
Click
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
1
Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see page 19).
2
Click 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).
3
On the
Actions
menu, click
Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive
to launch the
Migration Wizard.
4
Click
Next
on the first Migration Wizard screen.
5
Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default.
6
From 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).
7
On the
Select Source Hard Drive
screen, double-click the hard drive from which you want to
migrate, and click
Next
.
8
On 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
.
9
On 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.
10
Click
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:
1
Click the
Start
button and point to
Programs
→
Intel(R) Application Accelerator
→
Intel
Application Accelerator
to launch the Intel(R) Storage Utility.
2
Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.
3
Click
Mark as Spare
.
