Using HDD from a PVR or dish receiver into PC or Mac…HELP PLS

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Hi, I've tried Everything, the drive is Seagate Pipeline HD 1000gb (ST1000VM002). I want to wipe it clean or format, i dont care of whats on it. In disc management its not initialized. when from onboard SATA its showing 128gb (but its 1tb) and when i use an external usb enclosure it wont even register as 128gb its only not initialized. I tried loading from win 7, win 8.1, OSX even damn Linux and nothing will do. Tried all from Seagate, disc wizard, seatools, Darek's Boot n Nuke still no result. I"m now just about throwing the dam thing at the top of my force or maybe using it for target practice.

Has anyone succeded in doing this or is it justy a lost cause? Please, if you're out there and you know the answer to my riddle email or respond this thread. I have a hard time believing we cant hack in the drive to just wipe it clean?

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Ubuntu is an operating system that you can load from DVD (no install required). When booted, you can look at the partitions of the hard drive. You need to remove all the partitions from that drive so that Windows can work with it.
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I took a look on Seagate's site - the drive is a standard SATA III drive - should work in a PC. In this PDF, they say it works for servers and HTPC's - http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/video_3_5_pipeline-fam/pipeline-hd/en-us/docs/video3-5-hdd-ds1783-3-1309us.pdf

Are you seeing the drive in BIOS?

I have a eSATA 1TB drive from Toshiba that I plugged into a DVR from COX cable - it had some kind of funky format on it, I had to boot with it connected to a linux box to remove the partitions, then I moved it to my Windows PC where it was able to be partitioned and formatted.
 
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Yes its in the bios when in onboard SATA but not if in external USB case at bootup
 
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You mean put the disc in as only boot disc and install new system from install dvd? if so, i tried it. if not, what is ubuntu?
 
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i just re-installed the disc onboard and its the same, it shows 1 partition, 128gb total, but its suoposed to be 1tb, and still cant initialize cauz: "I/O device error". opk so im gonna try to download ubuntu and go from there. If you have any other ideas, PLEASE tell me.!
I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks for your time, its appreciated.
Simon
 
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ok thanks, i'm going to try right away. I"ll post the result afterwards. Its somthing i didnt try so im hoping…!!
 
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UBUNTU IS THE ANSWER. Booted from dvd (*no install even needed) then once desktop comes in, search for "disk" and you'll find a utility named disk or idisk then, right there you'll see the disk wich all other OSs failed to recognize, but youre not done, you need to fully erase it and all partitions that might be shown on diagram (4 part in my case) then erase it again (there should be JUST 1 whole disc and dont worry if it says 998 mb in fact its 998 gb.) THEN, create 1 big part or split it in two and now the format option that was greyed out will be available, select it and donw the window youll see the formating diagram and status bar working and if you have a 1tb disk and split it in 2, each part will take about 8 hours. Wait for it to be done then youll endup with a OSX, Win7-8.1 recognizable, usable bootable new HDD.
Thanks for the Ubuntu suggestion, i couldnt have made it without it cauz i tried EVERYTHING ELSE !!!!

Simon
 
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