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My problem was solved: it was because of the power supply. I have mounted a DC splitter on the NVR power brick output to "steal" some 12V from one of my CCTV cameras. Although the NVR didn't seemed to care about the missing amps, the HDD did. Actually, it made some clicking sounds on boot and the NVR failed to recognize it. After removing the DC splitter (actually, after disconnecting that camera) everything went just fine. The HDD drive is up & running like before. It seems like there was a bigger inrush current at HDD boot up and the power supply couldn't handle it.

Thanks for your quick reply! I can't format the drive inside the NVR as it not appears in the "Add New" window. I can find the USB storage (pendrive) in that list but not my SATA drive. I'll give it another try today, after NTFS/FAT32 formatting prior mounting inside the NVR. BTW, my main dislike about the EH1008H-nano NVR is the missing option of keeping (locking) some footages from being overwritten. The only option is to copy (back-up) them on the USB storage and that is time (and storage space) consuming, especially when you're in a hurry. The other bigger dislike is the lack of custom frame rate settings on hourly basis. I need it to record at very low frame rate (3fps) during the night time (as I have some lights/trees around who's triggering the motion sensor). Another solution could have been to set a lower motion sensitivity during night time but that's unavailable, too. Does anyone knows if there's any custom/tweaked firmware or something for this NVR?

Hello, I'm having an Aver EH1008H-4 nano too and I'm having some issues with a 2TB WD AV-GP drive. It worked OK for almost two years now but suddenly, after a regular restart, the NVR doesn't recognize it anymore. I moved the hdd on my linux machine and its data seemed to be okay though it didn't pass the fsck procedure (it kept stalling at 2.3% each time). I saved the shootings on another hdd and I reformated the AV-GP drive. Unfortunately, the NVR still doesn't recognize it. The drive looks OK now (check disk returned no errors and I have used the drive in my linux box for awhile with no issues at all). I have no spare SATA drive to check if the NVR would recognize it thus I wonder if anybody has a clue about why the NVR it's acting like that. Thanks in advance for any help.