Format a hard drive from a dvr

[Modplod]

Got a wd 320 gig black sata hard drive out of a dvr. Trying to format it for my Mac Pro. Disk utility shows it as having 0% capacity. Have tried partitioning it with gparted boot disk without success

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[ActionableMango]

There were other responses here that were destroyed due to the system restore.

Anyway, you can completely zero the drive using OS X command line "dd". This will wipe out partitioning and everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)#Disk_wipe

Just be sure you do the correct drive! Wikipedia's example is for /dev/sda, which is not necessarily the drive you want to wipe.

If you don't know what any of this means, don't do it.

 

[Modplod]

I tried various options including all the programs on UBCD......they all reported that the drive had been wiped by writing zeros to the drive or similar. I did a lot of this in a pc I have as well but after every attempt I tried the drive in my mac and it continued to show the drive as having 0% capacity. It showed up in the bios of the pc as a 320 gb drive but when I tried to install windows to it it could not find the drive....

I appreciate the help but I am about to throw this drive in the trash

 

[Dr. Stealth]

I tried various options including all the programs on UBCD......they all reported that the drive had been wiped by writing zeros to the drive or similar. I did a lot of this in a pc I have as well but after every attempt I tried the drive in my mac and it continued to show the drive as having 0% capacity. It showed up in the bios of the pc as a 320 gb drive but when I tried to install windows to it it could not find the drive....

I appreciate the help but I am about to throw this drive in the trash

I do not know if this is your issue but.... I have seen other drives like this (mainly from Western Digital) that have proprietary firmware on the drive and could not be reformatted. It sux but it's true....

 

[Modplod]

That must be it......if it is I feel at least it was an impossible task not a lack of knowledge on my part....into the trash it goes