The theory behind these files is that they aid in the speed of calculating routes...particularly longer routes measured in triple digit kilometers/miles or more..by piecing together bits of pre-calculated pre-configured routes instead of starting from scratch every time. This can decrease the time it takes to calculate a route by a substantial amount of time.
The prevailing (and correct) advice has been that ALL maps for an HNR region had to be installed for HNR "Quick Routing" to work.
With full mapsets now totaling over 2 GB, this was a problem for some devices/SD Cards as far as the ability to store all these maps, so HNR was not even a possibility. If HNR files were in place in the ..content/map folder, and even a single country map for the HNR region was missing, in Help>About>More>Content, Preprocessed Road Network was shown as [color="#FF0000"]red[/color] (meaning 'inactive') and details complained about missing maps files.
However, if you want to try HNR files (you do a lot of long distance routing), but you do not necessarily need ALL of the Western Europe (for example) maps on a regular basis, add the following to Primo's sys.txt:
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[route]
hnr_ignored_missing_country_ids=*
Then put the associated regional *.hnr files in your ..content/map folder, restart, any missing maps are ignored, and HNR should function with the remaining maps that are present.
I cannot personally confirm with certainty that this works (I do little/no long distance routing), but I can confirm that in Help>About>More>Content>Preprocessed Road Network, it no longer shows in [color="#FF0000"]red[/color] nor complains about "Missing files".
So it should work.