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 122.
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3 Record TV programs. See “Recording TV from the Guide” on page 28. Your programs are recorded to the HP Personal Media Drive.
4 Before disconnecting the drive:
■Make sure there are no scheduled recordings or recordings in progress to avoid losing data.
■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 123.
5 Close Media Center.
6 Restart your HP Media Center PC. You must perform this last step, or errors can result when recording to your drive.
7 Disconnect your HP Personal Media Drive safely. See “Disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive Safely” on page 123.
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:
n | 1 Assign a drive letter to your HP Personal |
Media Drive. See “Assigning a Drive Letter to | |
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.
HP recommends 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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Open Media Center.
Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then Recorder storage.
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.
Click Save, and then click Yes.
Close Media Center.
Restart the HP Media Center PC.
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