Soldato
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Hey,
Just purchased a second hand NVR 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?
EDIT -
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
Just purchased a second hand NVR 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?
EDIT -
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
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