USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation

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USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation

Preparing the USB-IDE hard disk drive in Windows 2000

Note Preparing a USB-IDE hard disk drive under Windows XP is almost identical to Windows 2000.

11.Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable.

12.Turn on your computer.

13.The USB device icon should display on the Taskbar.

14.If the USB-IDE hard disk drive is partitioned or has data, it shows up in My Computer as a hard disk drive icon. Check the file system by right-clicking on the icon and checking under Properties > General > File System. If the file system is NOT the FAT32 format, then format the USB-IDE hard disk drive using the FAT32 format.

15.If the USB-IDE hard disk drive is not partitioned, go to Administrative Tools in the Control Panel and launch Computer Management. Open Disk Management in Storage and right-click an unallocated region of the USB-IDE hard disk drive.

Then, select Create Partition.

16.In the Create Partition wizard, select Next then Primary Partition, and follow the instructions on the screen. Ensure that FAT32 is selected for the file system.

Note The partition size should be less than 32GB because of Windows

OS limitations.

After formatting is complete, the USB-IDE hard disk drive is added to My Computer.

17. Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to the DVR.

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