168
S
aving and
S
haring Your Recordings
■
Initializing the External Hard Drive
1
Connect the external hard drive to the camcorder.
•
S
tep
s
1 to 3 in the previou
s
procedure (
A
164).
2
Initialize the external hard drive.
1
Touch thi
s
option if you want to phy
s
ically era
s
e all the data rather than
ju
s
t clear the file allocation table of the hard drive. For large-capacity hard
drive
s
thi
s
operation can ta
k
e
s
everal hour
s
.
2
If you
s
elected the [Complete Initiali
z
ation] option, you can touch [Cancel]
>
[O
K
] to cancel the initiali
z
ation while it i
s
in progre
ss
. All recording
s
will
be era
s
ed and the hard drive can be u
s
ed without any problem.
3
S
afely end the connection to the external hard drive before
physically disconnecting it (
A
• Be careful when deleting recording
s
. Once deleted, record-
ing
s
cannot be recovered.
• Initiali
z
ing the external hard drive will
permanently era
s
e all
the data on the hard drive
(including your recording
s
, previ-
ou
s
data not
s
aved with the camcorder, and partitioned
drive
s
). Ma
k
e
s
ure to copy in advance important data to a
computer or other device.
0
>
[
1
Other
S
etting
s
]
>
q
>
[Initiali
z
e
'
]
>
[Initiali
z
e]
>
[Complete Initiali
z
ation]
1
>
[Ye
s
]
2
>
[O
K
]
