Formatting Hard Disks; Exporting Data By Card To A Hard Disk - Panasonic AJ-HPD2500 Operating Instructions Manual

Formatting Hard Disks

Follow the steps below to initialize a hard disk in a TYPE S or
FAT format.
◆ NOTE:
• Note that formatting a hard disk deletes all data on the disk.
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Press the THUMBNAIL button.
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Connect a USB or eSATA hard disk.
Hard disk status (page 51) changes to white (or red) when
a hard disk is recognized.
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Press the MENU button.
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Use the cursor buttons to select [HDD (USB or
eSATA)] – [EXPLORE] and press the SET button.
The explorer screen will now open.
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Press the MENU button, use the cursor buttons to
choose [OPERATION] – [FORMAT (HDD)] and
press the SET button. Then select the format (TYPE
S or FAT) and press the SET button.
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Connections: Using This Unit With a Hard Disk
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Select [YES] in the confirmation message that
appears and press the SET button.
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When the confirmation message appears again,
select [YES] and press the SET button.
The hard disk will now be formatted.
◆ NOTE:
• Check that no important data remains on the hard disk before
formatting since data erased by formatting cannot be
recovered.
Exporting Data by Card to a Hard
Disk
A TYPE S hard disk provides high-speed export (writing data
from a P2 card to a hard disk) of data by P2 card to a hard
disk. First format the hard disk using the TYPE S format. Up to
23 cards can be saved to a hard disk. Data from each
exported P2 card is recognized as a separate drive on a PC,
etc.
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Connect a hard disk.
A hard disk not in the TYPE S format should be formatted
using the TYPE S format.
➝Refer to "Formatting Hard Disks" (this page).
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Insert a P2 card.
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Press the THUMBNAIL button to open the thumbnail
screen.
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Press the MENU button.
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