Recording Tv Programs To The Hp Personal Media Drive; Changing The Tv Recording Path To The Hp Personal Media Drive - HP Media Center m7200 - Desktop PC Software Manual

When you set the TV recording pathway to your
HP Personal Media Drive, Media Center stores the
recording buffer data for pausing live TV on your
drive. This means that if live TV is playing, you won't
be able to remove the drive safely.

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 107.
2
Open Media Center.
3
Record TV programs. See "Recording TV from
the Guide" on page 24. Your programs are
recorded to the HP Personal Media Drive.
4
Before disconnecting the drive:
Make sure there are no scheduled
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recordings or recordings in progress to
avoid losing data.
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:
1
Assign a drive letter to your HP Personal
Media Drive. See "Assigning a Drive Letter to
the HP Personal Media Drive" on page 104.
2
Open Media Center.
3
Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then
Recorder storage.
4
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.
To avoid this scenario, change the recording
pathway back to your local hard disk drive, and
then restart the HP Media Center PC before
disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive.
Change the recording pathway back to
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your local hard disk drive. See "Changing
the TV recording path to the local hard disk
drive" on page 108.
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 108.
HP recommends that you know the drive letter
assigned and the storage amount of your
HP Personal Media Drive.
5
Click Save, and then click Yes.
6
Close Media Center.
7
Restart the HP Media Center PC.
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 right.
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.
Using an HP Personal Media Drive
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