Tuesday, May 6, 2014

How to format pen drives used to store dish tv recordings

How to format pen drives used to store DISH TV DVR recordings which seems to not work on PC's as it does not pop up on computer except on your notification area.

DISH TV has done this is to restrict the use of content so that content does not get copied for re-distribution without authorization.

"Sab Par Dish Sawaar Hai" (Logo used under fair usage)

The pen drive when used on mac based OS does not show the pen drive volume but you format it by initializing it via disk utility.

Tricks to format and make the pen drive useable again on PC.

NOTE: 
This tutorial does not show how to hack a system or to recover content.

Insert Pen drive

Go to start -> Go to run  (or press win logo key + R)

Now, type cmd

Press 'Enter'

Type the following (select the pen drive name)

Now, type
cmd

Press enter

Type the following (select the pen drive name)


For example,
Format j:


y

Enter 



If the above step does not work you can use.

A free software tool called 'fat32format' will come handy.

Make sure when using the above mentioned software you do not format the system drive.

Update: Try Paragon App to reformat the drive.

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