Hi guys,

I'm stuck in a bit of an annoying catch 22 .

I have a Sony HDR-SR11E camera which I have owned for 7 years or so.
The touch screen has seized working after leaving the camera in the Croatian sun for too long during the last summer holidays.

Somehow the built-in 60GB hard disk went corrupt and I could not record any more footage.
Now this is a bit of a pain as I'm leaving on our 6 week round-the-world-trip within 48 hours and would really like to have a working camera!

I can "force" the computer to load the hard disk as a USB external drive by using the docking station and pressing the "mount" button rather than operating the touch screen.
Here I concluded the hard disk indeed contained errors and I opted to format it.
Windows 7 formatted it as exFAT as the disk is more than 32GB large which doesn't work.
Found a tool that can format to FAT32 and did so.

Now when I start the camera it asks me "Do you wish to repair the image database?" and asks YES or NO.

No matter what I have tried I can not select yes. No button on the camera does it.
I've tried plugging it into my Bravia TV via mini-HDMI and operating the menus via BraviaSync, no luck either.

Came across this thread which contains exactly the same problem:
http://www.friendsofhdvideo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=51

Unfortunately none of the links the guy posted seem to work.

So in order to solve this my last hope is to find someone that owns a similar camera and can make a dump of the contents of their hard disk so I can copy the files and recover the image database.

TL;DR
* camera touch screen broken
* hard drive corrupt and reformatted
* require contents of similar model image database to restore