Hardware :: Creating A Filesystem On A New HDD?

He bought a Kguard DVR and a 2TB WD harddrive (SATA). First I tied formatting it from the DVR itself, but it failed. I then connected it to my computer using an USB2SATA connector, and tried formatting it with gparted. That failed with the message: "No partition table found on device /dev/sdd" When trying to create a msdos or gtp partition table it performs the action without errors, but it doesn't save the changes.

Same thing when using parted. When trying to create a msdos or gtp table (or label) it doesn't complain, but when i try to create a partition or simply use the print command it gives me the error "unrecognized disk label". I allso tried fdisk, but it told me to use parted instead due to the large size of the disk.