WD "Green Power"

[MrHappy]

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...

 

 

 

 

 

[Nova-Security]

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

 

[sixwheeledbeast]

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?

[al-yeti]

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 

[MrHappy]

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

 

 

[sixwheeledbeast]

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.