Replacing The Hard Drive; Formatting The Hard Drive - Lorex ECO 2 Instruction Manual

Appendix L: Replacing the Hard Drive
5 Gently remove the hard drive from the housing.

Replacing the Hard Drive

To replace the hard drive:
1 Place the new drive in the housing. Note that the hard drive must be installed upside down on
the 4/8-channel models only.
2 Reconnect the power and data cables. Each cable can only be connected one way.
3 Replace the cover, tucking the lip of the cover at the front panel.
4 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.
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.
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be formatted in order to function
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