Sentryus HD-NVR Series, User Manual

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User Manual of Network Video Recorder
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11.1 Initializing HDDs
Purpose:
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used with your NVR.
A message box pops up when the NVR starts up if there exits any uninitialized HDD.
Figure 11. 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 11. 2 HDD Information Interface
2. Select HDD to be initialized.
3. Click the Init button.
Figure 11. 3 Confirm Initialization
4. Select the OK button to start initialization.
Figure 11. 4 Status changes to Initializing
5. After the HDD has been initialized, the status of the HDD will change from Uninitialized to Normal .