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I took a maxtor hard drive out of a dvr,can it be reformated to work in a computer?

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Yes it can,

The drive will have to have the current partition removed and be re-partitioned and reformatted then it will be ready for use.

If you need more info regarding the procedure, reply here with your operating system and I can give you a little more info.


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you will need to either install it in a drive enclosure to put it on externally or you will have to install it inside your computer and connect it to the motherboard and power.

Once you're ready to go to the next step, let me know what version of windows you're using and I'll give you a short step by step.


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Reformating all the time.

Get a freeware data recovery software program (google for it). Be sure not to reformat the drive or copy any other files to it.

After you recover your files, run the maxtor diagnostics on it (do a full diag procedure).


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