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5 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray and load the disc you want to make a back-up of, then close the disc tray.

You can only make back-up copies of finalized Video mode discs.

Disc Back-up

No Disc.

Please load a disc to be backed-up.

Start Cancel

6 Select ‘Start’.

Disc Back-up

Read from disc and save to HDD.

Start reading?

Start Cancel

•To see the progress of the back-up, press DISPLAY.

•You can cancel the back-up process by pressing ONE TOUCH COPY for more than one second.

7 When the data has been copied, press OPEN/ CLOSE to open the disc tray. Take out the disc and load a blank* recordable DVD.

*If you’re using a DVD-RW, the disc doesn’t have to be blank, although the previous contents of the disc will be erased in the back-up process.

Disc Back-up

Disc content saved to Hard Disk Drive. Please eject the disc and load a recordable disc.

Start Cancel

You can use a DVD-R Ver. 2.0 disc, or DVD-RW Ver. 1.1 or Ver. 1.2 / 4x for the back-up.

•If you back-up a DVD-R disc to DVD-RW, you cannot undo the finalization later.

•Actual recordable capacity of discs vary so there may be cases where the contents of the disc you’re backing-up will not fit on to a particular blank disc. If this happens, please try another brand of disc.

8Select ‘Start’ to start writing the backed-up data to the blank disc.

Disc Back-up

Write back-up data from Hard Disk Drive.

The disc contents will be overwritten.

OK to start?

Start Cancel

• To see the progress of the back-up, press DISPLAY.

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•You can cancel the back-up process by pressing ONE TOUCH COPY for more than one second. However, this will make the disc unusable (although if you are using a DVD-RW disc you can re-initialize it in order to make it usable again—see Initializing a DVD-RW disc on page 57.)

9After the recorder has finished recording the back-up disc, you can select whether to make another back-up of the same data or exit.

Disc Back-up

Disc back-up finished.

To make another back-up copy, please load a recordable disc.

Start Cancel

•Select Start to make another back-up copy or Cancel to finish. If you want to make another back-up copy, return to step 6 above.

10If you don’t need to keep the back-up data on the HDD, you can delete it now.

Select Yes to delete the data from the HDD; select No to keep it (you can delete it later if you want to).

Disc Back-up

The backed-up data is still on the HDD. Erasing it will increase the free space available. OK to Erase?

Yes No

•If you decide to leave the back-up data on the HDD, you can make back-up copies to recordable DVD discs anytime from the Disc Back-up menu.

Note

•It is not possible to play material on the HDD that has been backed-up from DVD.

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