MrHappy 1,939 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 I have pile of WD Green Power HDD, pulled from some vista DVR's popping them into a windows machine, a handful are recognized with "disk management" but most ain't WD drive utilities does not recognise on of the working drives- However a Hik NVR will recognise the drive(s) & store data on it ? odd... Quote Mr Veritas God Link to post Share on other sites
Nova-Security 123 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 Might be due to the NTFS file stucture, this is good https://sourceforge.net/projects/superdiskformatter/ 1 Quote www.nova-security.co.uk www.nsiapproved.co.uk No PMs please unless i know you or you are using this board with your proper name. Link to post Share on other sites
sixwheeledbeast 561 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 Being embedded Linux it wouldn't necessarily be NTFS. Would use a Linux live ISO for checking drives like this. What do you want to do with them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
al-yeti 601 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 2 hours ago, MrHappy said: I have pile of WD Green Power HDD, pulled from some vista DVR's popping them into a windows machine, a handful are recognized with "disk management" but most ain't WD drive utilities does not recognise on of the working drives- However a Hik NVR will recognise the drive(s) & store data on it ? odd... Try MBR tool , maybe that's the issue Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrHappy 1,939 Posted May 31 Author Share Posted May 31 55 minutes ago, sixwheeledbeast said: What do you want to do with them? just sorting out the swag pile, I wanted a 2nd hdd for works cctv's & got carried away & now have more than a dozen I have some used PSU's but not the correct one to repair a wbox branded hik nvr (£58 for a psu) so binned it & held onto the toshiba 2tb I've wheelie bin full of dvr cases & knacked speed domes, I'm also hoping I've case fan which is suitable for a HP switch as mine is quite LOUD Quote Mr Veritas God Link to post Share on other sites
sixwheeledbeast 561 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 Well if it works just bung it in and use the formatting tool on the recorder? Windows can't read ext partitions. Would make sense for them to be ext something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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