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- Page 1 HP Personal Media Drive User’s Guide...
- Page 2 HP shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Restoring Damaged or Erased Files.............9 Transferring Files to Another PC Manually ...........9 Playing Games ..................10 Using Your HP Personal Media Drive with a HP Media Center PC ....10 Using the Security Lock................10 HP Personal Media Drive Specifications ........10 Troubleshooting ................11 Getting Help................. - Page 4 HP Personal Media Drive User’s Guide...
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Page 5: Introduction
The drive case is warm to touch while the drive is turned on. The HP Personal Media Drive is designed to be used as a stationary unit. It is very important that you handle this drive carefully to avoid hardware damage and data loss. -
Page 6: Hp Personal Media Drive Components
HP Personal Media Drive Components Your HP Personal Media Drive components are listed below: Pre-formatted USB 2.0 external hard disk drive Quick setup document Warranty and Support Guide (not shown) Installation CD that includes: • User’s Guide • Read Me file •... -
Page 7: Hp Personal Media Drive Features
HP Personal Media Drive. included). Compact The HP Personal Media Drive is Your HP Personal Media Drive is a pre-formatted, design lightweight and small. portable, external hard disk drive that allows you to quickly and easily store a large number of digital... -
Page 8: Getting Started With Your Hp Personal Media Drive
Drive Bay You can get started with your HP Personal Media The HP Personal Media Drive is designed to work with Drive in a few easy steps. First insert the installation most PCs as an external drive that is connected using... -
Page 9: Drive Indicators And Connectors
To insert the HP Personal Media Drive into a specially Back of HP Personal Media Drive designed HP PC: 1 Line up the ridges on the bottom of the drive with the two slots on the correct side of the PC drive bay. -
Page 10: Locating The Drive
The assigned letter depends on other storage devices connected to your PC. The default volume label of this drive is HP Personal Media Drive. You can rename the drive in the My Computer window by right-clicking the drive, selecting Rename, and then typing in a new name. -
Page 11: Formatting The Drive For Windows
To reformat the drive with FAT32 on a Windows ME to disconnect the drive. system: 1 Make sure the HP Personal Media Drive is NOT Formatting the Drive connected to the PC. for Windows 2 Click Start on the taskbar. -
Page 12: Using Your Hp Personal Media Drive Software
To back up a drive on your PC: procedure. 7 When formatting is complete, click Close and then 1 Make sure the Sonic Backup MyPC SE for HP click OK. software that came on the included CD is installed. See “Installing Drivers and Software from the Installation CD”... -
Page 13: Restoring Damaged Or Erased Files
To transfer your files manually: Disaster Recovery Set was created. 1 Connect your HP Personal Media Drive to the PC. Before performing a disaster recovery, you may want 2 Select your files and then drag and drop them to to try other options. -
Page 14: Playing Games
CD-ROM games typically run faster when they are installed on a hard disk drive than when they run on a Category Specifications CD. You can use your HP Personal Media Drive to store and play CD-ROM games. Supported Windows ME, XP Home,... -
Page 15: Troubleshooting
USB 2.0 adapter card Microsoft updates Your HP Personal Media Drive runs as fast as the host Make sure you have the latest Microsoft operating adapter card allows (up to the maximum burst rate of system service packs and other Windows updates 480 MB per second).