hard drive videos

[ecc83]

I have the SATA hard drive out of a defunct Toshiba Freeview HDD/DVD recorder. I would like to check it for any recordings from years ago which might be interesting.
I have a W10 tower PC and I could easily plug the drive in but I have two questions.

1)Is the drive liable to cause any 'boot' problems with the PC?
2) If it boots ok I do understand that the software is very unlikely to be readable by W10. Are there any apps that might help there?

Dave.

 

[TalismanRich]

If you boot from the normal drive, the drive Toshiba's drive shouldn't cause any boot issues but it most likely will be in a format that Windows can't read. If I was to guess it would more likely be a Linux based format as there would be no licensing fees to use that. It could also be a proprietary format that is optimized for recording video. It wouldn't need to worry about all the things that Windows or Mac would need to address.

I did find a thread regarding a program called IsoBuster on AVS Forums.

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/to...-transfer-recordings-from-hard-drive.3172635/

https://www.isobuster.com/isobuster.php It's not a free solution, unfortunately but it apparently lets you dump data directly from a supported DVR's hard drive to a PC.