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Digital Video Recorder User Manual
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Chapter 14 HDD Management
14.1 Initializing HDDs
Purpose
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used with your DVR.
Step 1
Go to
Menu > HDD > General
.
Figure 14-1
HDD Information Interface
You can view the Total Capacity, Free Space and Remaining Recording Time of the HDD. The
algorithm of the Remaining Recording Time is to use average bit rate for the channel
enabling smart encoding to raise accuracy.
Step 2
Select HDD to be initialized.
Step 3
Click the
Init
button.
Figure 14-2
Confirm Initialization
Step 4
Select the
OK
button to start initialization.
Figure 14-3
Start Initialization
Step 5
After the HDD has been initialized, the status of the HDD will change from
Uninitialized
to
Normal
.
Figure 14-4
HDD Status Changes to Normal