 SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
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Wild West
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| [hard drive] Hard Drive Software I have a hard drive that I bought to be an add on for my DVR. After the first boot, the DVR no longer recognizes this drive. When I connect the drive to my PC, I can see that the DVR put some files on the disk and doing some research, formatted the disk for a Linux based system.
I am looking for software that can remove all the information on the disk and restore the disk to its condition as it came from the factory. I want to try to connect it to the dvr as if it were out of the box to test a possible configuration issue.
Does anyone know of a software application that can accomplish this from a PC?
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SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
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Wild West | Wont that format the disk for a PC?
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| Only if you tell it to. What are you trying to accomplish, just to empty the partition table? You can do that quickly a lot of ways, fdisk is just one of them.
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SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
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Wild West | Basically, when finished I would like the drive have nothing on it, as if it were right out of the box.
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| Well in a strict sense you'd have to zero it then. But you don't have to do that in your case, what you really want is just to empty the partition table. That accomplishes the same thing for all intents and purposes, making the drive look like when it came from the factory, minus writing zeros to the entire drive, that is time consuming and unnecessary.
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| reply to Smokey
What are you trying to accomplish by doing this? Most DVRs will format the drive for you. It will format the drive regardless if it is direct from the factory or not. |
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SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
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Wild West | The dvr did format the drive, but now will not recognize the drive. I want to see if this is an issue with the drive or the dvr.
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