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Dm Eco4: Defaulting Hard Drive?

timmo66
in CCTV & Access Control

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Guys,

 

Got hold of an Eco4 as part of an upgrade. Needs a new fan (which dont cost much) but I was hoping to knock it on afterwards.

 

I obviously dont want to sell it with a hard drive full of images. Is there a way of defaulting the hard drive from the DVR? I have done a reset from the menus but that only seems to default programming.

Easiest way is put it on its highest record setting, attach a camera, loop the output of cam1 to cam2 and cam 2 to cam3 etc, point the camera at the wall and leave it recording until it fills up

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I did think about doing it this way, or leave it powered up with no camera connected so that it records a black screen for a couple of weeks. Assuming that the older ones record with no camera inputs?

Edited by timmo66

Remove hdd, formatt in normal pc.

Reconnect and the dvr should re formatt the hdd when it boots up.

Is there not a reinlitilize option on those ?

Should be an option to format the hdd

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Is there not a reinlitilize option on those ?

Should be an option to format the hdd

 

This is what I was hoping for, but I couldnt see anything within the DVR menus to format the drive

Just had a look at the manual. No format options.

Either take the hdd out and format. Or record a blank screen for a few weeks.

Remove hdd, formatt in normal pc.

Reconnect and the dvr should re formatt the hdd when it boots.

This will not completely remove the images.

I'd either use a killdisc like program in a desktop or record nothing on highest frame rate for a while like above.

im fairly sure the os is on the drive so I wouldn't format it.

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Do not format the drive, the OS is on it as James says

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second thoughts, the DVR may be more use to me than the pennies that they fetch for second hand.

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