Transferring Information To A New Computer - Dell XPS Gen 3 Owner's Manual

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 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 available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the RAID 1 volume, and
click Rebuild to this Disk.
3
You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume.

Transferring Information to a New Computer

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The Microsoft Windows
move data from the source computer to the new computer. You can move data such as:
• E-mails
• Toolbar settings
• Window sizes
• Internet bookmarks
You can transfer the data to the new computer over a network or serial connection, or you can store
it on a removable medium, such as a writable CD or floppy disk.
To prepare the new computer for the file transfer:
1
Click the Start button, point to All Programs→ Accessories→ System Tools, and then click
Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
2
When the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard welcome screen appears, click Next.
3
On the Which computer is this? screen, click New Computer and click Next.
4
On the Do you have a Windows XP CD? screen, click I will use the wizard from the
Windows XP CD and click Next.
5
When the Now go to your old computer screen appears, go to your old or source computer.
Do not click Next at this time.
To copy data from the old computer:
1
On the old computer, insert the Windows XP Operating System CD.
2
On the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen, click Perform additional tasks.
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XP operating system provides a Files and Settings Transfer wizard to
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