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Update: i have been fiddling around with the reimaging and during the process wiped clean the origional drive . I no longer have a backup of my z1 and cannot upgrade the 2 partitions and am stuck formatting the drives with the full 5 partiiton z3 image. I have used both 2010 and 2009 and all have failed using both drives. I just created a new partition on my hdd and will install win xp, as for some reason the vitural machine would not read toshiba drives. I will try using v10 on xp if this doesnt work perhaps its my z1 itself..

Hi all, Attempted to load the 2010 z3 image on a new toshiba MK6026GAX 60 Gb. I removed the security using mhdd and recovered the image to the drive using acronis true image 2010. When i popped it into the z1 i got a "cannot use hdd" message. I then loaded the 2009 z3 image and got the same error message. I did connect the original drive to the computer, however decided not to go along with the process of changing the original drive, however, when i put the original drive back in the z1 I get the same error message. I'm thinking windows might be adding/changing something when it lo