Toshiba Gigashot A Series - Manual (Page 10)

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Hard Disk Camera GSC-A100FE/GSC-A40FE
Using the Hard Disk Drive
It is recommended that you periodically save the files on the hard disk
drive to a PC, CD or DVD and then 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, HDD-DVD recorder, CD or DVD, etc.
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 event, formatting the hard disk drive before recording a video will
lessen the likelihood that files will be split. However, because formatting
erases all your recorded images and the albums you have created, you
should copy any important files onto a PC, HDD-DVD recorder, CD or
DVD, etc. before formatting the hard disk drive.
When you have problems such as not being able to record onto the
hard disk drive or play any of the images on the hard disk drive, format
the hard disk drive.
Formatting initializes the hard disk drive. This process erases all the
files on the hard disk drive.