Hard Drive in my Mac Pro

[dupschan]

Hey everyone. I use this site all the time and figured I should become a member and start helping others out too.

I took the 320gb HD out of my directv DVR and put it in my mac. It is a WD 320 gb sata drive that works as far as I know. The problem is that disk utility recognizes it as simply "media" and i cannot format it or read anything on it. I am not worried about anything on the drive I just want to use it as a drive on my mac.

If anyone has any insights that would be fantastic.

Have a good one.

Mac Pro Dual 3.0 Quad core, 8 gb RAM

 

[dukebound85]

open disk utility and reformat for mac usgae (hfs)

 

[ethical]

open disk utility and reformat for mac usgae (hfs)

The problem is that disk utility recognizes it as simply "media" and i cannot format it

I'm guessing it's been locked by the manufacturers to ensure it's only used with the DVR box. Not sure how you can get round it.

 

[dukebound85]

I'm guessing it's been locked by the manufacturers to ensure it's only used with the DVR box. Not sure how you can get round it.

everything is possible

op: have you checked the permissions of the drive?

 

[dupschan]

I guess i cant really check the permissions on it because all i can do is see that it is in disk utility.

I attached two screen captures of what I am looking at. The drive that concerns me is the one called "Media"
When I have it selected it will not allow me to do anything with it but it is there.
Would it be a good idea to pop it in my pc and format it there?

 

[lemonade-maker]

I would try to partition it. Use the options button and make sure it's guid partition.

 

[dukebound85]

What does the partition tab show?

 

[dupschan]

here is what the partition tab says

 

[ethical]

Are you able to partition or do anything with your other drives? It's seems odd that even the 'Info' button is greyed out.

 

[dupschan]

I have full access and funtionality with other drives. It seems to be isolated to just this drive

 

[dupschan]

I put it in a pc and it would not come up at all. I trust disk utility above any pc program. I think the drive is shot and it is a lost cause or there is a lock of some kind.
Anyway, I appreciate all your help in the matter and will post any new adventures in the future.

Anybody need a directv dvr without a hard drive?

 

[BillB50]

My guess would be that the drive is jumpered in a manner that causes this behavior - total guess here, but worth a shot.

Go to the manufacturers web site and see if there are jumper settings. If there are none, could be a custom firmware applied.

My two cents...

 

[Ca$hflow]

Interesting. I wounder why manufacturers would go that far to lock down the drive?

 

[ljonesj]

i know microsoft did that with the orginal xbox harddrive i dont know about the 360's