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Appendix A — USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation
Preparing USB-IDE Hard Disk Drive in Windows 2000
1.
Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable.
2.
Turn on your computer.
3.
The USB device icon should display on the Taskbar.
4.
If the USB-IDE hard disk drive is partitioned or has data, it will show up in
My
Computer
as a hard disk drive icon. Check the file system by right clicking on the
icon and checking under
Properties
à
General
à
File System.
If the file system is
NOT FAT32 format, format the USB-IDE hard disk drive using the FAT32 format.
5.
If the USB-IDE hard disk drive is not partitioned, go to
Administrative Tools
in
Control Panel
and launch
Computer Management.
Open
Disk Management
in
Storage
and right click an unallocated region of the USB-IDE hard disk drive. Then,
click
Create Partition.
6.
In the
Create Partition wizard
, click
Next
then
Primary Partition
, and follow the
instructions on the screen. Make sure that the FAT32 is selected for the file system.
NOTE: The partition size should be less than 32GB because of the limitations
of Windows 2000.
After formatting is complete, the USB-IDE hard disk drive will be added to
My
Computer
.
7.
Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to the DVR.
Preparing USB-IDE Hard Disk Drive in Windows 98
NOTE: Preparing a USB-IDE hard disk drive under Windows ME is almost
identical to Windows 98.
1.
Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable.
2.
Turn on your computer. The
Add New Hardware wizard
window will appear.
3.
Install the device driver for the USB backup device following the instructions
provided with your USB hard disk drive.
4.
If the USB-IDE hard disk drive is partitioned or contains data, it will show up in
My
Computer
as a hard disk drive icon. Check the file system in
Properties
à
General
à
File System.
If the file system is NOT FAT32 format, format the USB-IDE hard
disk drive with FAT32 format.
5.
Run the FDISK utility by clicking
Start
then
RUN
. Type “fdisk” and click OK.
6.
When the MS-DOS command prompt appears, type “Y” and hit the enter key.
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