It did sync w/Emplode fine like nothing had happened, however some of the playlists are gone. The playlists have changed quite a bit.
I tried to use the manual method of partitioning w/the 30G as master & the new 40G as the slave.
It doesn't look good here's the capture part of it anyways. After the capture I tried to connect w/Emplode & the player is stuck on syncing it won't stop.