Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive
You can permanently assign a drive letter to avoid the letter changing when you connect and disconnect this drive and other devices. Also, it is easier for a software program to locate files on the HP Personal Media Drive if a drive letter is assigned. Some programs may not be able to find files if the drive changes letters every time you connect it.
To assign a drive letter:
1 Click Start.
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3 Select Manage, and then click Disk Management.
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5 Select Change Drive Letter and Paths. HP recommends that you pick the drive letter Z.
6 Click Change and select a letter, and then apply the changes by clicking OK.
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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.
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Viewing and 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.
If you want the files that are stored on your HP Personal Media Drive to appear in Media Center, you must drag them to the correct media folders,
such as My Personal Videos and My Personal Pictures on your HP Personal Media Drive. These media folders appear after you complete the installation setup wizard that came on the HP Personal Media Drive Installation CD. See “Setting Up the HP Personal Media Drive to Work with Media Center” on page 92.
To avoid multiple hard disk drives using the same drive letter when connecting and removing the drives, assign the letter Z.
Playing Media Files
You can play all kinds of media from an HP Personal Media Drive:
1 Click Start on the taskbar.
2 Click My Computer.
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