Mmsmith 0 Posted December 15, 2020 Hello, I’m new to this site, and am unsure of the jargon, so please bare with me. We acquired an ArmorView 16 Channel DVR, System: NTSC, Model: 8216V, H.264 Video Compression, DC 12v 4A, with 5 wired night vision cameras. There was no hard drive so I bought a Seagate Skyhawk 2TB Internal Surveillance Hard Drive HDD w/ Drive Health Management: 3.5” SATA 6Gb/64MB Cache for DVR NVR Security Camera System. After installing it I turned on the box, I can see all the cameras, as I could without the hdd. So I got into the system op system to format the hdd but nothing happens then I noticed theres no green light on the front of the machine indicating the hdd is running. What am I missing, why cant it format and why wont it record? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 187 Posted December 15, 2020 Hi. You might find your using the wrong hard drive ..... some older dvrs are restricted to a certain hard drive to use try using a old WD drive around 1 or 2tb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
