"LenBum" <LenBum@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm upgrading my computer to a 500gb hard drive. I've tried copying the
> Vista drive with 2 different programs but can't get the drive to boot.
> Here is
> my setup. I have 2 hard drives, one with Vista and the other with XP. I
> dual
> boot using Vista Boot Pro 3.3. I copied the drive booting to XP and then
> using Drive Image XML. The drive copies fine. I added this to the boot
> options in Vista Boot 3.3 listing it as Vista#2. When I pick it to boot
> from
> a series of error messages stating that windows can't verify the digital
> signature on vital files in system32. This also occurred after I copied
> the
> drive with Hdclone 3.2. I've looked through the readme files and can't
> find
> anything on this problem. A Google search also came up with nothing. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
If I were you, I would start out fresh with the 500gb drive and do clean
installs. Ultimately, you may find that the process of so doing takes way
less time than trying to clone either OS to the new drive..
--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx