4 Under Record on Drive, select “+” to select the HP Personal Media Drive. You can also set the disk allocation and recording quality settings in this window.

HP recommends that you know the drive letter assigned and the storage amount of your HP Personal Media Drive.

5 Click Save and then click Yes.

6 Close Media Center.

7 Restart the PC.

Changing the TV recording path to the local hard disk drive

To change the Media Center TV recording path to your local hard disk drive:

1 Open Media Center.

2 Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then Recorder storage. You can also set the disk allocation and recording quality settings in this window.

3 Select your local hard disk drive (C:).

4 Click Save and then click Yes.

5 Close Media Center.

6 Restart the PC.

Disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive Safely

To disconnect your HP Personal Drive safely:

 

1 Close Media Center and all other programs

4 Select your device that is labeled HP Personal

that may be accessing your HP Personal

Media Drive, and then click OK. This name of

Media Drive. Make sure the activity LED is off.

the drive may appear as Generic Volume

2 Double-click the Safely Remove

followed by the assigned drive letter. A Safe

to Remove Hardware message appears in the

Hardware icon in the system tray

System tray at the bottom of your desktop

at the bottom of the desktop. If this

letting you know that your drive is safe to

icon is hidden, click the arrows on the taskbar

disconnect.

to display it. The Safely Remove Hardware

5 Click Close.

window opens.

3 Double-clickUSB Mass Storage Device to

6 Disconnect the drive from the PC.

locate your HP Personal Media Drive. USB

 

Mass Storage Device may be listed twice.

 

One may contain a memory card reader or

 

other mass storage drives.

 

n

If you attempt to disconnect the drive safely and a message appears telling you that you can’t, restart the PC; a program may still be using the drive.

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