Appendix B: Installing or Replacing the Hard Drive

Formatting the Hard Drive

If you replace the pre-installed hard drive or install a new hard drive, it must be formatted in order to function properly with the system.

ATTENTION: Formatting the HDD erases all data on the hard disk.

This step cannot be undone.

To format the hard disk:

1Right-click and then click Menu.

2Enter the system user name (default: admin) and password (default: 000000) and click Yes.

3Click HDD>General.

4Check the hard drive that you would like to format.

Check the hard drive

Click Format

5Click Format. Click OK to confirm. Wait for the formatting to complete. Right-click repeatedly to return to live view.

NOTE: You will notice that the size of the HDD and the free space are not the same. The system uses a portion of the disk space for the operating system and initialization. This is common in all security NVRs as well as computer hard drives.

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