Formatting The Hard Drive - Lorex Vantage LH010 ECO BLACKBOX SERIES Instruction Manual

4 Carefully turn the DVR over and tighten the hard drive screws (4x).
5 Carefully turn the DVR back over. Replace the cover, tucking the lip of the cover at the front
panel.
6 Replace the screws on the side and rear panels of the cover.

Formatting the Hard Drive

If you replace the pre-installed hard drive, it
properly with the system.
ATTENTION: Formatting the HDD erases
This step cannot be undone.
To format the hard disk:
1 Right-click to open the Menu Bar and click the Main Menu button (
2 Click Device.
3 Click the checkbox under Select to choose the drive you wish to reformat.
4 Click Format HDD. Enter the system password.
5 When the warning window appears, click OK. Wait for the system to format the hard drive.
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 DVRs as well as computer hard drives.
Tighten the hard drive screws
Appendix E: Replacing the Hard Drive
must
be formatted in order to function
on the hard disk. 
all data
Select checkbox
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