External Connections 139
4 Safely end the connection to the external hard drive before
physically disconnecting it.
• Be careful when deleting recordings. Once deleted, recordings
cannot be recovered.
• Observe the following precautions while the external hard drive's
access indicator is on or flashing.
- Do not disconnect the USB cable.
- Do not disconnect the camcorder or the external hard drive.
- Do not change the camcorder's operating mode.
Initializing the External Hard Drive
1 Power the camcorder using the compact power adapter.
Do not disconnect the power source or turn off the camcorder until the
initialization is completed.
2Press T to set the camcorder to playback mode.
3 Connect the camcorder to the external hard drive using the
optional UA-100 USB Adapter.
Connection #-2. Refer to Connection Diagrams (A 125).
4Press .
5 Initialize the external hard drive.
1
Touch this option if you want to physically erase all the data rather than just
clear the file allocation table of the hard drive. For large-capacity hard drives this
operation can take several hours.
2
If you selected the [Complete Initialization] option, you can touch [Cancel] >
[OK] to cancel the initialization while it is in progress. All recordings will be
erased and the hard drive can be used without any problem.
6 Safely end the connection to the external hard drive before
physically disconnecting it.
[ Other Settings] > q > [Initialize ] >
[Initialize] > [Complete Initialization]
1
> [Yes]
2
> [OK]
