Dell INSPIRON 530 DCMF - Transferring Information to a New Computer

Setting Up and Using Your Computer 47
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 Start and point to All Programs → Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel(R) Matrix
Storage Manager.
2 Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.
3 Click Mark as Spare .
To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive:
1
Right-click the spare hard drive icon.
2 Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAID
Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume
If your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has
reported a degraded RAID 1 volume, you can manually rebuild the computer’s
redundancy mirror to a new hard drive by performing the following steps:
1
Click Start and point to All Programs → Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel(R) Matrix
Storage Manager.
2 Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the
RAID 1 volume, and click
Rebuild to this Disk .
NOTE: You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume.
Transferring Information to a New Computer
You can use your operating system "wizards" to help you transfer files and
other data from one computer to another—for example, from an old
computer to a new computer. For instructions, see the following section that
corresponds to the operating system that your computer is running.
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