Whenever I receive the next firmware update for my Tablo I plan to reset the unit to Factory settings and go thru the startup procedure again.
Question: as part of that procedure will I be given the option to reformat the drive or will the Tablo recognize it already has proper formatting and start recording even though there are existing recordings on the drive, possibly corrupting the FAT?
I want to know if I would have to go thru the steps of hooking up the USB drive to my PC to remove existing partition and create a NTFS partition before the Tablo will offer to format the drive and start again “fresh” before writing to the disk?
My first Tablo had issues, so it was replaced. When I used the same hard drive, it did not ask to reformat. However, the space that was used by the first Tablo was still there, inaccessible by the second Tablo. Luckily, I had only about 100 MB used, so it wasn’t a big deal.
So if you want your disk to be new, just format it using a PC like @theuser86 is saying.