Pelco DX8100 Series manual Allocating a Drive, Allocating a System and Data Drive Simultaneously

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Allocating a Drive

ALLOCATING A SYSTEM AND DATA DRIVE SIMULTANEOUSLY

This section describes how to allocate a system drive’s data partition and a data drive at the same time.

NOTE: The system drive’s data partition and the data drive must already be formatted and partitioned. For information about configuring a system drive data partition and data drive, refer to Setting Up the System Drive on page 13. For information about configuring only a data drive, refer to Setting Up a Video Data Drive on page 21.

1.Go to Start and select Shut Down. The Shut Down Windows dialog appears.

2.Select Restart and then click OK. When the unit restarts, the PDB Initialize dialog appears.

3.Locate the option “Space on one or more hard disk drives has not yet been allocated to the PDB database.”

4.Click the plus (+) sign to expand the list (refer to Figure 26).

Figure 26. Expanding the PDB IG Group Box

5.In the New Volume (E:) box, click the “Not used” button, and then select Allocation. The shortcut menu appears and the Allocation command is highlighted (refer to Figure 27).

Figure 27. Selecting the System Data Partition for Allocated

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Contents DX8100 Series Hybrid Video Recorders Page Contents List of Illustrations Important Safety Instructions Unit must be shut down to install the system and data diskParts List and Tools DescriptionInstalling a Hard Disk Drive Opening the Chassis Removing Chassis CoverInterior Component Layout DVD-RWRemoving Sata Power and Data Cables Removing a DriveLift the drive out of the basket Installing a Drive Setting Up the System Drive Partitioning the System DriveDX8100 Boot Settings View Press Enter. The Boot Device Priority screen appears Installing Windows and DX8100 Application Software Page Setting UP the System Data Partition Formatting the System Drive Data PartitionClick Format. The Format E dialog appears refer to Figure Optional Configuring the Data Drive Setting Up a Video Data Drive Configuring a Hard DriveSelect Disks to Initialize Dialog Converting a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk Data Disk Status Changed to DynamicPartitioning the Data Disk Reinstalling the DX8100 Allocating a Drive Allocating a System and Data Drive SimultaneouslyC2639M-B 8/09 Allocating a NEW Video Data Drive Viewing the Unallocated DriveC2639M-B 8/09 Revision History Product Warranty and Return Information