86Disk config.The hard disk drives in the recorder are managed byvirtually dividing into 4 recording areas.Only one of the 4 recording areas can be assigned to asingle hard disk drive.(1) Normal recording areaThe following will be stored in this area. Images record-ed by the event recording will not be stored in this area.• Image/audio data recorded by manual recording• Image/audio data recorded by the schedule record-ing• SD memory data(2) Event recording areaThe following will be stored in this area.• Image/audio data recorded by the event recording• Image/audio data recorded by the emergencyrecording(3) Pre-event recording areaImage/audio data recorded by the pre-event recording(4) Copy areaCopied dataNote:• When an unformatted hard disk drive is installed inthe recorder, it will automatically be formatted as thenormal recording area. However, when the hard diskdrive that had been used not as the normal record-ing area is removed (Refer to the Installation guide.)and an unformatted hard disk drive is installed as areplacement, the newly installed hard disk drive willbe formatted as the same recording area as theremoved one.• Recording/playback is unavailable even if only thepre-event recording area or the copy area is creat-ed. Either the normal recording area or the eventrecording area shall be created.• When there is no normal recording area, images/audio recorded by manual recording and the sched-ule recording will be stored in the event recordingarea. When there is no event recording area, imag-es/audio recorded by the event recording and theemergency recording will be stored in the normalrecording area.Configure the settings relating to the hard disk drive on the disk configuration page.It is possible to format the hard disk drive, and check the total capacity and the capacities of each recording areaon the disk configuration page.HDD management(4)(2)(3)(1)Copy areaPre-event recordingareaEvent recording areaNormal recording areaThe available disk capacity of each recordingarea can be checked on the setup menu.