I am able to re-apply the player software upgrade with my old drive in place. I suppose the next thing is to make sure the drive didn't get damaged when the guy that gave it to me pulled it out. I'm fairly confident in his abilities... but I suppose he could have damaged the drive. It was just running in his laptop. He had NTFS on it, but that shouldn't have an effect right? It should just be clearing the drive and imaging from stratch.