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Internal Disks allows you to view and format the internal hard drives in
the recorder.
1. Click Internal Disks .
2. To view the information for your hard drives, click the Detail column
for the drive you want to view and select Yes .
3. To format or repair your drive, click Action and select your desired
action.
Add/Remove: This action will activate and deactivate the drive.
The status of the drive is displayed under the Active title.
Format: Formatting the drive will remove all video and logs. This
information will be written over with future data.
Note Formatting the drive will NOT erase configuration files such as
Users and System settings.
Repair: This action will attempt to repair the drive.
LOWFMT: This is considered a higher level format. It removes all
video and logs per sector. This is a very thorough and extensive
format.
Note LOWFMT will NOT erase configuration files such as Users
and System settings.
4. Click Confirm.
5. Close Internal Disks.
This option is not used with the hardware associated with the RevB
(AVX-NV80-P2B or AVX-NV160-P2B) HDIP models.
On compatible models (AVX-NV80-P2A or AVX-NV160-P2A), you can
connect an external eSATA HDD, up to 4TB, to increase video
recording storage.
Note Expanding video storage is only available with eSATA drives .
USB drives are compatible only for backup.
1. Click External Disks.
2. To view information for your hard drive, click the Detail column for
the drive you want to view and select Yes.
3. To format or repair your drive, click Action and select your desired
action.
See “Formatting an Internal Drive” for available actions.
4. Click Confirm.
5. Close External Disks.
This option allows you to lock the data of specified alarm events. Event
video protected here will not be deleted or overwritten.
1. Click Data Protection .
2. Select your desired alarm events, listed by date and time, and click
Lock , and then select Yes to lock the events.
3. Close Data Protection .
When set to On , this function performs a deep scan of the hard drives
any time the recorder restarts after power loss.