Locating The Drive After Installation; Assigning A Drive Letter To The Hp Personal Media Drive; Viewing And Storing Files - HP Media Center m7000 - Desktop PC Reference Manual

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The installation CD
that came with your
HP Personal Media
Drive allows you to
assign a drive letter
to the HP Personal
Media Drive.
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To avoid multiple
hard disk drives
using the same
drive letter when
connecting and
removing the drives,
assign the letter Z.
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Locating the Drive After Installation

After you install the HP Personal Media Drive into
the PC, you can find the drive in My Computer. The
PC automatically assigns a drive letter which may
change unless you assign a drive letter. See
"Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media
Drive" on page 140.
1
Click Start on the taskbar.
2
Click My Computer.

Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive

You can permanently assign a drive letter to avoid
the letter changing when you connect and
disconnect this drive and other devices. Also, it is
easier for a software program to locate files on the
HP Personal Media Drive if a drive letter is
assigned. Some programs may not be able to find
files if the drive changes letters every time you
connect it.
To assign a drive letter:
1
Click Start.
2
Right-click My Computer.
3
Select Manage, and then click Disk
Management.
4
Right-click HP Personal Media Drive.

Viewing and Storing Files

The best way to transfer files to the HP Personal
Media Drive is to drag them from your local hard
disk drive to your HP Personal Media Drive.
If you want the files that are stored on your
HP Personal Media Drive to appear in
Media Center, you must drag them to the
3
Select your drive under Hard Disk Drives. The
default name is HP Personal Media Drive.
5
Select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
HP recommends that you pick the drive
letter Z.
6
Click Change and select a letter, and then
apply the changes by clicking OK.
correct media folders, such as My Personal Videos
and My Personal Pictures on your HP Personal
Media Drive. These media folders appear after you
complete the installation setup wizard that came on
the HP Personal Media Drive Installation CD. See
"Setting Up the HP Personal Media Drive to Work
with Media Center" on page 139.