How to use HD PVR/DVR hard drives for your PC computer? Reformat/partition required.

When you have a broken HD PVR TV box, or you have a black listed box that your service provider won't activate or allow you to sell, you may want to salvage the SATA hard drive in there. However, this drive will not be recognized by your computer, and appears to be not working. That's because it's partitioned and formatted with a non NTFS format. To use this for your computer internal hard drive or an external USB drive enclosure, you need to unlock this drive by re-format and re-partition it. This video will show you how to open your DVR box and take out the hard drive, then use Windows 10/7 software tools to change the partition and re-format it.

[@sanghauzel]

Can you show instead how to view the contents of the CCTV's HDD in PC.

[@MrVincethevole]

-hey, - I had a couple of Virgin Cable box video recorder (UK)HDDs - 500G & 1T , - was on the verge of binning them but checked out your video - and wow! it works - a few mins and both are formatted and operational - fantastic, many thanks for that. (I just regeret binning a 1T a few months back now! Cheers Henry Q, Dave.

[@stephenfienberg8765]

I South Africa, the DSTV Explora 1 (2013-2016) was fitted with 2TB 3.5" drives. During the pandemic loads of people cancelled their subscription and there are now loads of them being sold on Marketplace for R400-500, like $20-25.

[@tiaan8551]

thank you friend,for those with DSTV exploras i found a 2TB hardrive in my old explora

[@augustinentshela580]

Hi Tiaan how did u format urs

[@dicksonsmartmumba5518]

Good work Bruh I love your hard work

[@zobukhan1394]

Thanks for the help friend, had a surveillance disk which i can now use in my pc :)

[@sebastianmiles2034]

Having trouble playing movies from a "portable HD" that was formatted to the TV's DRV, in order to record.
But now the "Portable HD " is not recognised by my Laptop... What can I do, to keep the content & watch ony laptop?

[@rajdesai83]

Thank for this video..
Very useful

[@lookbratz69]

a 6 point socket will work with those screws. ford thought they where cute doing that. guess i figured out where they got the idea

[@kirkmcintyre5745]

So I've been doing this for a while and I've just learned about something called "PUIS". In some pvr boxes (Bell Express VU, I'm from Canada eh!) the hard drives are locked and these hard drives are 1TB drives. I heard about videos that show how to unlock them using the original PVR box but I can't find the video. Do you know how this is done or where I might find these videos? I tried Ontrack btw and it doesn't work. FYI these are Seagate drives not Western Digital so it's not just a jumper bypass.

[@RoyGGIII]

yes i have done this. what you do is use the pvr box you took hard drive from. with hard drive still connected to the pvr power on the pvr box then what you want to do is just take the small sata connection cord off the board of pvr box and plug it into the small sata on your desktop pc. that then allows you to make changes to the drive. you just first have to power it with the pvr. format the drive then you are good to remove drive power from pvr and put on pc

[@DKSorg]

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[@alexandrarohm3794]

Using from pc to PVR harddrive?

[@alexandrarohm3794]

What format do you use for dstv PVR?

[@alexandrarohm3794]

Hi...how do you change it back????????

[@herryafandi1799]

It's work. Thank you.👍

[@toopowerful1988]

Thanks Man Very Helping broo plus 1 subs

[@kirolosmakram881]

btw i did this in a golden one dvr it has a wd av in it i tried to used for my pc and it was really really slow at reading bec wd av meant to be for security cameras and video files i tried to run games on it and it worked now i had all my data on it i cant open pics bec it is really slow i cant copy data from it bec it is slow etc. now i lost all my data

[@titchdev]

thats ur fault lol

[@ticaudittrail308]

Can I use my pc harddisk for my DVR, And if I can, which format should I format to NTSC or exFAT?

[@Tutterzoid]

Try just fitting the hard drive to the DVR and then select Format HDD .. that works in the CCTV DVR boxes :)

[@alisaiyed2612]

Useful thanks

[@J4yy_]

Legend, thanks.

[@pikachu20245]

thank you so much

[@timgregg4153]

Okay now show us how to get past the power up in standby that all dvr systems are setup with

[@tiisetsomohapeloa8347]

Thank u so much..

[@carlosramirezfabian1256]

Can this be done using a MacBook pro 2011?

[@titchdev]

no lol

[@smithelectro-plumb2994]

When use xp it works as well

[@sriramsubramanian2385]

Solution was quite simple . But for this 19min of video.... Anyway thanks for the solution.

[@noxproductions6851]

what i did to remove the external weird ass screw was rip the front face plate off, the rip the top part off...my mom says the one thing i've always better the best at was tearing shit apart!!!

[@jamesbenedict3553]

My don't work

[@titchdev]

tough shit

[@Daisy.florina]

too dark

[@justinplet]

Sorry too many ads for a video that isn't very confident

[@vijayannair9762]

Usless no brightness. Not see