Posted by E. Barry Bruyea on 10/24/06 18:55

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:29:55 -0500, "Peter H. Coffin"
<hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote:

>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.


Graduate of the School Of Posting Insults, I gather.

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