External Connections 113
IMPORTANT
• 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 ] to set the camcorder to playback mode.
3 Connect the camcorder to the external hard drive.
• If the USB cable supplied with the external hard drive has a
standard-A connector, you will need to use the optional UA-100 USB
Adapter.
• Connection #-2. Refer to
Connection Diagrams
(A 100).
4 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.
5 Safely end the connection to the external hard drive before
physically disconnecting it.
0 > [1 Other Settings] > q > [Initialize '] >
[Initialize] > [Complete Initialization]
1
> [Yes]
2
> [OK]
