Formatting The Card - Mobotix D24M Manual

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Formatting the card:

Admin Menu > Storage
on External File Server
/ Flash Device
The Safe Formatting
option takes several
hours. You can also use
suitable applications on
Windows, Linux/UNIX
and Mac OS X comput-
ers to safely format
the MicroSD card
D24 User Manual: OPERATInG THE CAMERA
3.5.2 Formatting The Card
Before a MOBOTIX camera can store image and video sequences on a MicroSD card, it
needs to be formatted as MxFFS (MicroSD cards delivered with MOBOTIX cameras are
already MxFFS-formatted). The following steps are necessary to format a storage device
(Admin Menu > Storage on External File Server / Flash Device):
1. Make sure that there is a MicroSD card in the card slot of the MOBOTIX camera.
2. Click the Format button under SD Flash
Card.
3. Select the Quick Format option and
confirm by clicking OK.
Note: In contrast to the Quick Format
option, the Safe Format option will make
sure that the data on the MicroSD card
is overwritten completely so that the data
cannot be recovered in any way. However,
keep in mind that the Safe Format takes
considerably more time.
4. Enter the user name and the password
of a user of the admins group in the
dialog that opens and click OK to confirm.
The MOBOTIX camera now starts formatting
the card. It usually takes between 5 and
12 minutes to format an 8 GB MicroSD
card using the Quick Format option and 3
to 14 hours using the Safe Format option.
Once the formatting has been completed, you can activate the MicroSD card for recording
(see next section).
Make sure that you always wait until the formatting process has been completed
before accessing the camera again. This usually takes only a few minutes when
using the Quick Format option! You can only access the MicroSD card once MxFFS
formatting has been completed!
The Safe Formatting option can take several hours. You can also use suitable appli-
cations on Windows, Linux/UNIX and Mac OS X computers to safely format the
MicroSD card.
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