I had to manually all the "Content" and "Zeros" folder under the data partition after the format. and like i said i have all the original dump...
small update. after some further searching here on digiex i came across half a million party buffalo suggestions, so i downloaded and installed...
as the title suggests i cant for the life of me get an image file created from my dumped files! its extremely irritating and im loosing patience...
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