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Appendix E: Replacing the Hard Drive
4
Carefully turn the DVR over and tighten the hard drive screws (4x).
5
Carefully turn the DVR back over. Replace the cover, tucking the lip of the cover at the front
panel.
6
Replace the screws on the side and rear panels of the cover.
Formatting the Hard Drive
If you replace the pre-installed hard drive, it
must
be formatted in order to function
properly with the system.
To format the hard disk:
1
Right-click to open the Menu Bar and click the Main Menu button (
).
2
Click
Device
.
3
Click the checkbox under
Select
to choose the drive you wish to reformat.
4
Click
Format HDD
. Enter the system password.
5
When the warning window appears, click
OK
. Wait for the system to format the hard drive.
NOTE:
You will notice that the size of the HDD and the free space are not the same. The system
uses a portion of the disk space for the operating system and initialization. This is
common in all security DVRs as well as computer hard drives.
Tighten the hard drive screws
ATTENTION
: Formatting the HDD erases
all data
on the hard disk.
This step cannot be undone.
Select checkbox