Toshiba Gigashot K Series - Manual (Page 23)

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Hard Disk Camera GSC-K80HE/GSC-K40HE
About the Built-in Hard Disk Drive
This camera has its own built-in hard disk drive. Hard disk drive will also be
referred to as “HDD” throughout this Owner's Manual. The hard disk drive
is a precision component that is easily affected by impacts, vibration and
environmental variations such as changes in temperature. Note the
following when using the camera:
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Avoid striking, dropping, vibrating or waving the camera around while it
is operating or while it is idle. Doing so could result in camera damage,
malfunctions or loss of stored data.
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Do not turn the camera off while it is writing data to or reading data from
the hard disk drive. Doing so could result in camera damage,
malfunctions or loss of stored data.
„ Before formatting the hard disk drive, check the data stored on the hard
disk drive carefully.
Formatting the hard disk drive completely erases all the data saved on
the hard disk drive. Data erased during formatting cannot be recovered.
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You should back up the data saved on the hard disk drive frequently in
case of damage to the hard disk drive or any modification or erasing of
the data.
Toshiba accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss or corruption of data
stored on the hard disk drive.
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It is recommended that you make a trial recording before recording
content that is important to you. Play back the trial recording to ensure
that the video and audio were recorded properly.
Using the Hard Disk Drive
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It is recommended that you periodically save the files on the hard disk
drive to a PC, CD or DVD and format the hard disk drive.
The hard disk drive is a high precision component and there is always a
risk of partial damage to the disk depending on how it is used. At worst,
it may become impossible to read or write data to the hard disk drive.
Accordingly, the hard disk drive should not be regarded as a permanent
storage location for recorded files, but rather as a temporary storage
location for viewing images before they are to be erased or copied for
permanent storage onto a PC, CD or DVD, etc.
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When files are repeatedly recorded onto the hard disk drive and erased,
file distribution on the hard disk drive becomes fragmented and the
amount of continuous free space decreases.
When this occurs, files that cannot be saved into a single block of free
space are split into 2 or more parts during saving.
Increasing numbers of split files will slow down normal camera
operation and may in some cases prevent the allocation of sufficient
free space to save new files even after stored images are erased.
In this situation, copy the files on the hard disk drive onto a PC, CD or
DVD, etc. and then format the built-in hard disk drive.
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If you cannot record or playback images on the hard disk drive, please
format the hard disk drive.
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After formatted, the hard disk drive reverts to default and all the stored
data are erased.