paddy - 5 minutes ago »
I've put the USB pen drive in with a 30 minute recording with the 3 files. The HDR has a banner saying 'USB device has been connected' but will not open the 'media' menu.
Long shot I was hoping the media menu would still give access to the usb port despite the fact you haven't got a hdd installed. You at least have the capability to save your recordings if you wish before formatting the drive.
Thanks, Shall I format all 4 partitions?
Well it's all been a complete success. I formatted the 3 partitions not containing the video files and put the drive back in the HDR hoping for the best. The HDR then came up and said HD will be formatted. This lead me to believe that all 4 partitions would be formatted. BUT NO! All my recordings are still there and play fine! Must have been a corrupt boot partition. And the box is clever enough just to re-make the empty partitions!
Thank you grahamlthompson for all your help, what a result!
paddy - 24 minutes ago »
Well it's all been a complete success. I formatted the 3 partitions not containing the video files and put the drive back in the HDR. The hdr then came up and said HD will be formatted. This lead me to believe that all 4 partitions would be formatted. BUT NO! All my recordings are still there and play fine!
Thank you grahamlthompson for all your help, what a result!
That's brilliant news and one to remember. 
FWIW, I had a similar problem 500GB drive in an HDR that refused to boot. I tried the drive in a 9300 and it worked fine, including re-formatting. Back in the HDR, nada!
I eventually put it in a USB enclosure connected to my PC and formatted to NTFS, reinstalled it in the HDR, which booted, re-formatted and it works well since.
RichardHenshall - 9 minutes ago »
FWIW, I had a similar problem 500GB drive in an HDR that refused to boot. I tried the drive in a 9300 and it worked fine, including re-formatting. Back in the HDR, nada!
I eventually put it in a USB enclosure connected to my PC and formatted to NTFS, reinstalled it in the HDR, which booted, re-formatted and it works well since.
Interesting. This, to me, suggests some sort of corruption of the file system which it might (ought?) be possible to sort out non destructively.
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