HP recommends that you know the drive letter assigned and the storage amount of your HP Personal Media Drive.
Click Save, and then click Yes.
■ Change the recording pathway back to your local hard disk drive. See “Changing the TV recording path to the local hard disk drive” on page 108.

When you set the TV recording pathway to your HP Personal Media Drive, Media Center stores the recording buffer data for pausing live TV on your drive. This means that if live TV is playing, you won’t be able to remove the drive safely.

To avoid this scenario, change the recording pathway back to your local hard disk drive, and then restart the HP Media Center PC before disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive.

Recording TV programs to the HP Personal Media Drive

1

Change your recording pathway to your

 

 

 

HP Personal Media Drive. See “Changing the

 

 

 

TV recording path to the HP Personal Media

 

 

 

Drive” on page 107.

 

 

2

Open Media Center.

5

Close Media Center.

3

Record TV programs. See “Recording TV from

6

Restart your HP Media Center PC. You must

 

the Guide” on page 24. Your programs are

 

perform this last step, or errors can result

 

recorded to the HP Personal Media Drive.

 

when recording to your drive.

4

Before disconnecting the drive:

7

Disconnect your HP Personal Media Drive

 

■ Make sure there are no scheduled

 

safely. See “Disconnecting the HP Personal

 

 

Media Drive Safely” on page 108.

 

recordings or recordings in progress to

 

 

avoid losing data.

Changing the TV recording path to the HP Personal Media Drive

If you decide to change your recording path to record directly to your HP Personal Media Drive, Media Center creates a Recorded TV folder on your drive:

1 Assign a drive letter to your HP Personal Media Drive. See “Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive” on page 104.

2 Open Media Center.

3 Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then Recorder storage.

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.

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6 Close Media Center.

7 Restart the HP Media Center PC.

To change the TV recording path back to your local hard disk drive, follow this procedure and select your hard disk drive in step 4.

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HPrightrecommends. that you record TV programs directly to your local hard disk drive and then transfer your recorded programs to the HP Personal Media Drive, if desired.

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