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Chapter 9
HDD Management
9.1
Initializing HDDs
Purpose:
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used with your NVR.
Note:
A message box pops up when the NVR starts up if there exits any uninitialized HDD.
Figure 9. 1
Message Box of Uninitialized HDD
Click
Yes
button to initialize it immediately or you can perform the following steps to initialize the HDD.
Steps:
1.
Enter the HDD Information interface.
Menu > HDD> General
Figure 9. 2
HDD Information Interface
2.
Select HDD to be initialized.
3.
Click the
Init
button.
Figure 9. 3
Confirm Initialization
4.
Select the
OK
button to start initialization.
5.
After the HDD has been initialized, the status of the HDD will change from
Uninitialized
to
Normal
.
Note:
Initializing the HDD will erase all data on it.
