pcbbc wrote:There's a lot more to it than that.
The planner database is deleted and almost certainly the file allocation table for the video data is also erased. These are both key to being able to recover or playback anything. Without the video FAT your recordings are scattered all over the disk with no clues as to how to find them or put them back together. A directory entry, which is all you can see now because these are endian-independent file system structures, tells you nothing other than something was there, but not which clusters it uses past the first one. And a box won't play ANYTHING without a planner database to go with those files, and I have absolutely no idea how to create all the hundreds of fields and populate them with the correct entries to make a recording play correctly.
If you want take an image of the disk using the disk image tool in the support forum and send it to me for analysis I can look at it. Regretably you are not the first person to do this by a long way, and if it were even remotely fixable I would coded a utility to do it long before now.....
pcbbc - I have an important and VERY significant update:
The program ExPVR works! It shows all 103 of my recordings. ALL recordings are listed - correctly named, dated, etc. I copied an unencrypted recording from the disk to my PC, but with a 200MB limit
If you know of any similar free programs that can extract the full video - let me know.
This is quite significant - these recordings, it would seem, are recoverable.
With neither copy+ nor extract+ working, there HAS to be software out there to cater for this!
Moozer