sac2dude

Thanks for the response! The X950BH has similar Nav features, just as the unit it replaced (we originally had the AVIC-Z1 in there), so it used the illumination wire, speed wire, reverse wire, etc.. Sounds promising. I can just pull the unit when the time comes, and if the power plug is the same, and the wires line up, then it sounds like I have a shot at this being EASY! That'd be nice for a change.

Okay, this might be a dumb question, but can I just unplug the X950BH and plug in the W8500NEX? Are the harnesses the same? Or do I have to get a new harness and whip out the soldering iron? It's my wife's 2001 Boxster, so there aren't any steering wheel controls to worry about. Thanks!

Got it! For some reason, when restoring my pre-backup, Acronis would actually make a new folder and store the files in THERE... not replace those on the partition. Example: If the USER partition was mapped to I:, what I'd find after Acronis recover would be a new subdirectory "Drive(I)" in the root of USER. Within Drive(I) would be ... the root of USER. The recovered USER! So all I had to do was copy those folders and overwrite the originals, delete folder "Drive(I)", and all was good. Same thing happened with MSV...

I never thought of that. Excellent idea! I'll give it a go and let you know. Thanks for the quick response!

Help! Its beginning to get somewhat frustrated. I'm not a rookie, in that my wife and I both have the Z1, one of which I unlocked and bought a 2nd drive to start fresh with and kept the old as a backup, so I moved up to the Z2 version, then later the Z3, so I've used the tools quite a bit to play with these drives.. However, whenever I reinstall the drive after the Acronis recover I get the ominous "Invalid HDD" screen! This one stumps me... Here are the steps I've done: 1. Pull wife's drive. 2. Make backup with Acronis as I typically do. 3. Open the z3_2009_virgin1.t