My friend has a powerplex edr400 digital video recorder that is used for video surveillance at his business.  It is not PC based and is it's own unique little entity.  The hard drive died and I went to buy another.  At that time, I didn't know that it wasn't in some way windows based.  I took the new drive and formatted it using a winxp pro disk.  I let the setup files load, but actually didn't install win.  Of course, when I inserted it into the unit it didn't work since it was linux based and embedded. After realizing what I had done, I got a win98 disk and ran the fdisk utility.  All I did was delete the partition.  I was unsure whether or not to format using fat32 or ntsf.  Now I wonder if it is going to work when I install it again.  The manufacturer told me that I should have put the new one in right out of the box.  What do you think?  Oh yeah, the DVR system consists of a linksys router, 4 dome cameras, cd/rom, mouse and keyboard - the latter two have not been working of late.

 

Thanks for the help.  I feel like this system is my child from all the time it took to get the parabolic antennae up and properly positioned for remote viewing! This should have been an easy task...In a perfect world, that is.  Thanks everybody