Restore Hard disk

[cruelty 0]

Hi have had problems with hard drive which came in DVR so i have 2nd hard disk that i know is running in a pc and want to use this in DVR now. my question is how to get this hard disk back to factory settings(as in when you ake it out of the static packet) , this hard disk has some windows files on it which i no longer need

 

EDIT: by the way its a maxtor hard disk

[dvrtiger 0]

You should try to locate software tool for Maxtor products and use it to zero fill your HDD. Zeroing will erase any traces of boot sectors, page files etc.

[rory 0]

as they said Zero fill will wipe it completely, though it could take hours. You could just do a full format then delete the partition, thats the most common method, though it doesnt wipe it as Zero fill does and forensic teams would still be able to get some data from it using special software.

[cruelty 0]

in what "format" should i format the disk too? NTFS? Fat? Fat32? etc before deleting the partition?

 

Downloaded maxtor software(Max Blast) to try the zero fill method but there does not seem to be an option to do that

 

thanks for the info guys

[rory 0]

What DVR are you going to use this in?

If its a Windows based then typically it will be NTFS.

If its an Embedded Stand alone DVR normally you just delete the partition and the DVR itself will partition and format it (or let you format it manually) when you first start it up with the drive as then it must be formatted in their file system.