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cheers Nikesh,

tried that and it has gone through the motions and wiped my recordings etc, but I don't believe that it is a full format of the drive-is there a more thorough format??

My V+ STB is having loads of stop start problems when I'm watching recordings, the drive is quite noisy and I can hear it accessing continually-prob about to fall over!

I will try it again and see if it helps

thanks again