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Chapter 14 HDD Management 
14.1  Initializing HDDs 
Purpose 
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used with your DVR. 
Step 1 Enter the HDD Information interface. 
Menu > HDD > General   
   
Figure 14-1 HDD Information Interface 
You can view the Total Capacity, Free Space and Remaining Recording Time of the HDD. The 
algorithm of the Remaining Recording Time is to use average bit rate for the channel 
enabling smart encoding to raise accuracy. 
Step 2 Select HDD to be initialized. 
Step 3 Click the Init button. 
 
Figure 14-2 Confirm Initialization 
Step 4 Select the OK button to start initialization.