If you have important shows on it, don't mind opening and voiding warranty on receiver, have a spare computer, and provided the HDD does not have special firmware and can be seen by a computers bios, you can run spin rite on the drive and it might get it running again or at least able to move the shows to EHD. I will say I don't think this has been attempted but in theory it should work.
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