PVR - the first time the USB external HDD drive is used in the Bell receiver it gets formatted in a Linux format. It will need to be reformatted to work on your Windows system. Search for “Disk Management” – it’s done in there.
Attach external HDD to your Windows computer, open Disk Manager, you will see the drives that don’t show in Windows explorer. From there you can reformat or do whatever needs to be done, but you will lose all the data on them, including any previous recorded shows and you will need to set it up again if you want to use it as a pvr.
Once you use the external HDD on the PVR, it gets formatted with a different file system. It can be resolved by reformatting the drive on the laptop or PC.
You can do this in Disk Management. To start Disk Management do the following:
- Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
- In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view.
You should see your external hard drive listed there. You can highlight it and delete the volume. Once you have the volume deleted, you can then reformat it under Windows and use it again.
The method you have outlined here usually works, not just for bell but for all pvr/dvr boxes but... I have a problem. For a week now I've been stuck with these 3 hard drives that are 1TB each and cannot be formatted. In fact I'd have thought they were dead drives if not for the fact that they seem to work perfectly in their original boxes. Take them out of their box and hook them up to a pc however and they don't even spin up. Can you help me?
ReplyDeletethe system works perfect,thanks to show me how
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