“Your hard drive must be formatted before Tablo can use it for recordings”

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A search format drive has a couple results, people waiting it out, and others just doing things in a different order…

Reformat external WD hard drive

You need to power down the Tablo. Wait 30 seconds and then power it up. You should then see the option to format your hard drive.

My 1st 24 hours with Tablo

I purchased one of the Tablo Dual 64gb units that are on sale by Tablo for 69.99 (I think that was the price). Anyhow, I got it quickly in good shape. Initially I connected it to an old WD Elements Portable hard drive that had previously been used with a game console. That seemed to work, but after a couple of hours, the hard drive started make some chirping sounds. So I took it off and tested it on my PC. It is fine, and the chirping stopped. Then I ordered a 6tb WD Elements desktop drive…

as well as your discovery - yes let’s hope you can assist someowne