I have recently bought a dvr with a seagate ide hard drive for monitoring the use of a boat. The plan was to leave the dvr on the boat all the time and take the hard drive home for analysis on the PC. I bought a caddy for the pc naively expecting to just slot the hard drive in and view the results on the pc.
It doesn't work like this does it. I put the hard drive in and eventually got the pc to see it through formatting it to NTFS, this process wiped the contents. I then put it back into the DVR which promptly formatted it back to something else and now the pc can't see it again.
The question is is there a device I can use to enable a windows xp pc to download the data directly from the dvr ide hard drive for recording edited highlights onto a dvd, or will I need to buy another dvr to keep at home to play the hard drive contents into a video capture card.
Sorry if it's a bit vague but I'm new to this technology and it's a steep learning curve that I only started a couple of days ago. I think the shop assistant I asked for advice misled me a bit....
