4Safely end the connection to the external hard drive before physically disconnecting it.

•Be careful when deleting recordings. Once deleted, recordings cannot be recovered.

•Observe the following precautions while the external hard drive's access indicator is on or flashing.

-Do not disconnect the USB cable.

-Do not disconnect the camcorder or the external hard drive.

-Do not change the camcorder's operating mode.

Initializing the External Hard Drive

1Power the camcorder using the compact power adapter.

Do not disconnect the power source or turn off the camcorder until the initialization is completed.

2 Press Tto set the camcorder to playback mode.

3Connect the camcorder to the external hard drive using the optional UA-100 USB Adapter.

Connection #-2. Refer to Connection Diagrams (A125).

4 Press .

5 Initialize the external hard drive.

[ Other Settings] >q>[Initialize ] > [Initialize] >[Complete Initialization]1 >[Yes]2 >[OK]

1Touch this option if you want to physically erase all the data rather than just clear the file allocation table of the hard drive. For large-capacity hard drives this

operation can take several hours.

2If you selected the [Complete Initialization] option, you can touch [Cancel] > [OK] to cancel the initialization while it is in progress. All recordings will be erased and the hard drive can be used without any problem.

6Safely end the connection to the external hard drive before physically disconnecting it.

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