How to reformat a DVR drive for use on a computer?
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I recently took out a 320g Western Digital Hard Drive out of a DVR. As far as I know, it was never used, but there was apparently something wrong with the power supply so it was just left alone. The hard drive was pulled out of a HR20i - 100 HDDVR receiver. My overall goal with this is to use it for computer storage. When I first boot my computer, the screen that shows what drives are plugged into my computer says that one drive, which is most likely my OS drive, is H.D.D Compatibility Enabled while...
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In Windows 7, you need to go to "Disk Management" and see if the drive is listed. If it is...
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I have a LG tv that has a DVR function via USB. When i plug the HDD into the tv it formats it to only be used for the tv but its a 2TB drive and i would like to partition it or something to be used on the computer aswell (maybe 500gb for tv use and ...
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Buy a tv tuner for the computer. then put the card and harddrive in the computer. and use the computer...
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I wan't to use it as a computer hard drive but my bios won't recodnize it. The sata port it is pluged into shows as a blank space in the bios where a sata port that has nothing pluged into it shows as sata port 5 and not a blank space. I took it out...
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why would you think a dvr hard drive would work with a pc? well, as you can tell I dont know what the...
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Im wondering if its possible for me to reformat my computer with a use flash drive? I have a Win Xp cd but could i drag all the files that are in that cd into the flash drive and use it to reformat?
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i dont believe its possible why dont u just use the disc? u could probly go online somewhere and illegaly...
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I placed an external hard drive on my Dish DVR and formatted it to work with Dish. Now I want to reformat the hard drive so that it works on any pc. When I plug it into either my ...show more
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You need to just go to Disk Management... search for that in the search box in Windows and it should...
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I have lots of stuff on my DVR that I would like to save, but I'm running out of room. I noticed that the DVR has a USB port, and I was wondering if I could use it to save my shows and how? If not, can I save it to my computer or a DVD and how?
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The USB port 4 firmware updates for the computerit takes a device to input and then to a dvd Most use...
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I recently purchased a Seagate DB35.3 (which is intended for use as a DVR or Media PC storage device), and was interested in running it in my computer as standard hard drive (for the Windows OS and the like). I only ask this because my original 1Tb Seagate...
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If it is SATA (looks like that model can come in PATA or SATA) then yes you will be able to use it in...
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Yes it is. As long as you have a OS disk or a software to reformat you can use it with another computer...
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No, it is not possible to reformat the hard drive of a Tivo box and use it in a computer.
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Hi ! Connect it to your windows PC ... It wont be detected as a drive and displayed ... But you can...
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