Canon VIXIA HF R42 Insrtruction Manual page 117

Before disconnecting the external hard drive
Before turning off or physically disconnecting the external hard drive,
be sure to safely end the connection to the camcorder to avoid dam-
age to your files. From the [External Hard Drive] screen:
[Safely Remove Hard Drive]
IMPORTANT
• Make sure you power the camcorder with the compact power adapter
before you save a memory to the external hard drive. If the compact
power adapter becomes disconnected, the connection between the
camcorder and the hard drive will end, which may lead to the corruption
of data in the hard drive.
NOTES
• Initialize the external hard drive (A 118) when you use it with this cam-
corder for the first time.
• You cannot select both the built-in memory and memory card to save
them simultaneously.
• You cannot use the following types of external hard drives.
- USB-powered portable hard drives
- Hard drives with a capacity over 2 TB
- USB flash drives or media connected to card readers
• If the external hard drive is partitioned, only the first partition will be rec-
ognized.
Playing Back Previously Saved Recordings from the External Hard Drive
1 Power the camcorder using the compact power adapter.
2 Press
3 Connect the camcorder to the external hard drive using the
optional UA-100 USB Adapter.
Connection #-2. Refer to
4 Touch [Play Back from Hard Drive] and select the memory save
folder you wish to play back.
• If you performed multiple memory save operations on the same day
(for example, if you saved the built-in memory and then a memory
to set the camcorder to playback mode.
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[Yes]
Connection Diagrams
(A 104).
External Connections
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