Western Digital Ultrastar HDD 6TB fails "Abnormal" in my NVR?

[zubair]

Hi,

I've acquired a 6TB WD Ultrastar HDD, which was in a NAS setup. When I plugged into NVR first time, it came up uninitialised. When I click on initialise, it goes up to 20% and then fails. Says abnormal.

I know the HDD was working fine in the NAS originally.

Does anyone have any suggestions, does the disk need to be wiped on a PC or something before installation in an NVR?

 

[Dan]

Hi @zubair

Yes, we would recommend trying to format the HDD using a PC, it might be that when in use with the NAS the HDD might have been configured/partitioned in a way that the NVR does not recognise.