Panasonic AG-MSU10 Operating Instructions Manual

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Formatting the Interface BoxThis section describes how to format an SSD in-stalled in the interface box.An SSD can be formatted as a TYPE S or FAT drive.Before you use an SSD for the first time it must beformatted using TYPE S or FAT.ERASE ALL allows you to delete all data on the SSD.TYPE S:A special disk format for high-speed writingdata by P2 card. It enables saving up to 23cards. Saved data for each copied P2 card willbe recognized as a separate drive by comput-ers and other devices.FAT:The basic primary partition becomes FAT32.Computers will recognize the device as asingle drive and as cards are copied to thedrive, new folders are automatically created forcopying.ERASE ALL:Since formatting will only delete some of thedata, use ERASE ALL to securely erase all thedata on the drive. NOTE:• Do not use battery power, but the AC adapter for ERASEALL since it writes data to the drive to delete all data,which takes considerable time.• To use an SSD after an ERASE ALL operation, format itselecting either TYPE S or FAT.1 Make sure that TARGET in the mainscreen is INTERNAL and press the F3(INT. EXPLORE) button.• The EXPLORE screen appears. NOTE:• The appearance of the screen that appears de-pends on which type of formatting was selectedfor the SSD.2 Press the MENU button and use the cur-sor (up/down/left/right) buttons to select[OPERATION]  [FORMAT(INT.)] andpress the SET button.3 Select the format type (TYPE S, FAT orERASE ALL) and press the SET button.4 Use the cursor buttons (Up/Down) toselect [YES] in the confirmation messagethat appears.• Formatting starts5 Press SET when the completion mes-sage appears. NOTE:• Check that no important data remains on a device beforeformatting since data erased by formatting cannot berecovered. Note that formatting formats the entire storagedevice.• A storage device is not guaranteed to operate on thisunit if the storage device was formatted with this unitand data was later written to the storage device using apersonal computer. (Data written using this unit or thestorage device itself may not be recognized.)