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The installation CD that came with your HP Personal Media Drive allows you to assign a drive letter to the HP Personal Media Drive.
Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive
You can permanently assign a drive letter to avoid | To assign a drive letter: | ||
the letter changing when you connect and | 1 |
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disconnect this drive and other devices. Also, it is | Click Start. | ||
easier for a software program to locate files on the | 2 | ||
HP Personal Media Drive if a drive letter is | |||
assigned. Some programs may not be able to find | 3 | Select Manage and then click Disk | |
files if the drive has a new drive letter. | |||
It is best to always remove your drive safely to avoid |
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errors. See “Disconnecting the HP Personal Media | |||
Drive Safely” on page 29. | 5 | Select Change Drive Letter and Paths. | |
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HP recommends that you pick the drive letter Z.
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To avoid multiple hard disk drives using the same drive letter when connecting and removing the drives, assign the letter Z.
Storing Files
The best way to transfer files to the HP Personal Media Drive is to drag them from your local hard disk drive to your HP Personal Media Drive. This allows you to place files in specific folders so that they can be viewed in Media Center. Refer to the following procedures for more detailed instructions about creating these linked folders.
Playing Media Files
You can play all kinds of media from an HP Personal Media Drive:
1 Click Start on the taskbar.