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DVD recorder as External hard drive
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cant see why not
i have done it with hard drives out of bt vision boxes and sky boxes and cctv dvr recorders before
i have done it with hard drives out of bt vision boxes and sky boxes and cctv dvr recorders before
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Most of the time it'll work. You just need to be sure that the connectors inside the enclosure are SATA (or IDE if you're planning to put an old IDE drive into it).
Very rarely, a manufacturer will do something with the device's firmware which prevents it from being used as a straight SATA -> USB enclosure. In that case it won't work. But it shouldn't hurt to take it apart, swap in a hard drive for the DVD drive, and see if it works.
Very rarely, a manufacturer will do something with the device's firmware which prevents it from being used as a straight SATA -> USB enclosure. In that case it won't work. But it shouldn't hurt to take it apart, swap in a hard drive for the DVD drive, and see if it works.
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