Hard Drive and NVR Issue

[Nevakonaza]

Hey,

Just purchased a second hand NVR (DEATTI 4/8/16-Channel AHD DVR 5-in-1 Hybird) so i can put a camera up outside the house.

Installed a hard drive (Seagate Pipeline 2) but when trying to format the drive in the NVRs settings it says "the storage is read only and cannot be formatted"

Now, when i connect the hard drive to my pc dock, I can format it to whatever,Fat32,Fat,NTFS.

Whatever i want it to, But soon as the NVR tries to format it itself to set it up, It gives me this "the storage is read only and cannot be formatted" error.

What do you think is up? Surely the drive would need to be in FAT32 format?

I've had a look in and Manually Remove Read-only with DiskPart within windows but as far as i can tell it was already unlocked anyway.
I've tried 2 different drives, Both give the same issue.

Any suggestions as this is driving me crazy.
kind regards

 

[c hris527]

Check to see If your user account you are using has credentials to do that, sometimes they limit what you can do depending on the users privileges. Not being familiar with the menus on that DVR, you might have to poke around and check that. It is best to let the dvr use its native formatting scheme.

 

[Nevakonaza]

Hey, Thanks for the reply.

It does indeed, The account and only account on the unit is admin and i can see all privilege's are enabled, Very baffled atm lol.

 

[Flintstone61]

it's usually a Linux environment that NVR's are written in...
maybe try a Linux format

 

[Nevakonaza]

Found out what the issue is, The DVR did not come with a Power supply/plug.

I had a 12V power supply which i thought would be okay, It gives out 12V but only 600MA,The unit needs 12V 2A.

The hard drive wasn't getting enough power to spin up properly, and that's why it wasn't getting detected by the NVR properly.

All seems good now, Just need to buy a 12V 2A power plug/PSU.