Recording TV programs to Your HP Personal Media Drive
1Change your recording pathway to your HP Personal Media Drive. See “Changing the TV recording path to the HP Personal Media Drive” on page 121.
2Open Media Center.
3Record TV programs. See “Recording TV from the Guide” on page 34. Your programs are recorded to your HP Personal Media Drive.
4Before 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 122.
5Close Media Center.
6Restart your HP Digital Entertainment Center. You must perform this last step, or errors can result when recording to your drive.
7Disconnect your HP Personal Media Drive safely. See “Disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive Safely” on page 122.
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:
1Assign a drive letter to your HP Personal Media Drive. See “Assigning a Drive Letter to the
HP Personal Media Drive” on page 117.
2Open Media Center.
3Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then Recorder storage.
6Close Media Center.
7Restart the HP Digital Entertainment Center.
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.
Using an HP Personal Media Drive
4Under 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.
5Click Save, and then click Yes.
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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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