Posted by Peter H. Coffin on 10/24/06 13:29

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:26:03 -0400, E Barry Bruyea wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:17:03 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:07:28 -0700, Karl S <karlsch@-no-spam-ak.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Since I first read about this here, I discovered a thread (really long)
>>>about this in the AVS Forums:
>>>http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=675487
>>>Somewhere in the thread somebody explains that all you do is install a new
>>>drive and restart the unit. It has been tried it with a variety of drives
>>>and they all worked.
>>
>>I read all that thread but do not recall anything about changing out
>>the hard drive.
>>
>>How did you format the drive or did the unit do it for you
>>automatically?
>
>
> Most new HDD's come with their own software and install automatically.

*blink* Unless your DVR is treating the drive as a raw device, you'll
still need the DVR's preferred filesystem on it. I'll bet you a donut
that it's not using FAT32 or whatever the drive may have come
preformmatted to.

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Frankly, your argument wouldn't float were the sea composed of mercury.
-- Biff

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