Error creating hard drive label

[ivwshane]

Hello! Thanks to the help of this forum I have already recovered/re-purposed one drive however I'm having trouble with another.


I received a drive from an old DVR box and had planned on using it as a pc drive, I connected it to the pc (sata) and the pc didn't recognize it. I followed the steps found in this post by Spildit and booted a linux live cd which was able to recognize the drive.
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However when looking at the drive from ubuntu (I assume the disk analysis software was gparted) it shows the drive as being one big block of unallocated space. I then try to create a new partition and in doing so it tells me that it must setup a label for the disk, it goes through the process of creating the label but then fails saying unable to create disk label.

What options if any do I have?

Thanks!

[ivwshane]

The data is definitely not important. I'll try mhdd and see what I can do with it.

Thanks

[ivwshane]

mhdd shows no password on the drive (it shows security high, off).

[ivwshane]

When I try to erase the drive I get an error (can't write on drive):(