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...

 

 

 

 

 

Might be due to the NTFS file stucture, this is good https://sourceforge.net/projects/superdiskformatter/

 

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?

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 

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

 

 

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.