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11. HDD Management
Managing HDDs
11.1 Initialising
HDDs
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be first initialised before it can be used
with your DVR. Initialising the HDD will erase all data on it.
To initialise a HDD:
1.
Click Menu > HDD to enter the HDD Management menu, shown in
Figure 1.
Figure 1. HDD Management Menu
2.
Select HDD to be initialised.
3.
Click the
Init
button.
4.
Select
OK
button to start initialisation. After the HDD has been
initialised, the status of the HDD will change from
Abnormal
to
Normal
.
11.2 Setting HDD Groups
Your DVR can separate multiple HDDs into groups. Videos from specified channels
can be set to be recorded onto a particular HDD group.
To set up an HDD group:
1.
Click Menu > HDD to enter the HDD Management menu.
2.
Select HDDs to be added to group.
3.
Select
Group
button to enter Group Settings menu.
4.
Set the
HDD Group Number
, as shown in Figure 2.
