GIGAMEDIA: Check your hard drive for proper operation

GIGAMEDIA: Check your hard drive for proper operation

Preamble  : By default, when you purchase a GIGAMEDIA IT KIT, the hard drive is already installed and ready to use.

On the other hand, if you buy a recorder on its own, there is no hard drive. 

You are free to use a hard drive according to your needs and to make sure that it is well recognized and formatted.

In the graphical interface, a pictogram could appear on the main window, at the bottom to indicate the presence or not of your hard drive:

: Hard drive not detected.

: Hard drive detected but not formatted.

In the Menu, find Configure,  then Storage,  and then Disk.

Check the status of your hard drive in the Status column  : 

• If there is no row in the table: Your hard drive is not recognized or faulty
• If its status is Normal: Your hard drive is operational and recording.
• If its status is Unformatted: You will need to format your hard drive by selecting it and then clicking on the FORMAT button. 

A warning message will tell you that formatting will erase all data from the hard drive. Select: Format the hard drive completely and then confirm by specifying the admin password. 

Note: When using the hard drive for the first time, you can perform the same operation of checking and formatting the hard drive, through the startup wizard.

The HDD LED corresponds to the hard drive:

- Off : Hard drive not detected.

- Fixed : hard drive detected but not recording

- Flashing : Hard drive detected and being recorded.

Main menu (top left) then Remote Adjustment. 

Select your recorder and then Menu Storage and Hard Drive