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Appendix E: Replacing the Hard Drive
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 Cl
ick Device.
3 Click the checkbo
x under Select to choose the drive you wish to reformat.
4 Cl
ick Format HDD.
5 When the warning
window appears, click OK. Wait for the system to format the hard drive.
NOTE: Y
ou 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.
ATTENTION: Formatting the HDD erases all data on the hard disk. 
This step cannot be undone.
Select checkbox