Setting Up the HP Personal Media Drive to Work with Media Center

When you complete this setup procedure, you will be able to easily access content — such as music, photos, videos, and recorded TV programs — from customized folders on your HP Personal Media Drive.

Once you complete the HP PMD (Personal Media Drive) setup wizard, you can drag and drop your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV files from your primary hard disk drive to personalized folders in the HP Personal Media Drive for backup or storage. You will also be able to use your remote control to access these files from within Media Center.

1 Press the Media Center Start button

on the

remote control.

 

2Use the arrow buttons on the remote control to select More Programs, and then press OK on the remote control.

3Select HP PMD Setup, and then press OK on the remote control.

4Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup wizard.

5Restart the HP Digital Entertainment Center.

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The HP PMD Setup Wizard in More Programs allows you to set up folders so that you can more easily access your media files with Media Center.

Locating the Drive After Installation

After you install the HP Personal Media Drive into the HP Digital Entertainment Center, you can find the drive in My Computer. The HP Digital Entertainment Center automatically assigns a drive letter which may change unless you assign a drive letter. See “Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive” on page 179.

1Click Start on the taskbar.

2Click My Computer.

3Select your drive under Hard Disk Drives. The default name is HP Personal Media Drive.

178Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Software Guide