Hi bdearlove,
Thanx for your reply; thats what I was doing, hence the confusion as it kept coming up with an error everytime I tried to create it in the wizard.
The hard drive had been partitioned and formated in windows but it wouldnt allow me to create an img file on them, I downloaded the v2v converter, removed the partitions, then created them again in windows but didnt format them, formated them with v2v and it worked fine. I'm not sure if this is the way its supposed to be done or if its just me but thought I'd post this in case anyone else had the same problem in the future
John