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User Manual of DS-7600NI Series NVR 
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10.1 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 10. 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 10. 2 HDD Information Interface 
2. Select HDD to be initialized. 
3. Click the Init button. 
Figure 10. 3 Confirm Initialization 
4. Select the OK button to start initialization. 
Figure 10. 4 Status changes to Formatting 
5. After the HDD has been initialized, the status of the HDD will change from Uninitialized to Normal. 










