Try the software that came with the hard drive, and tell it to "Clone" the
drive. That way, it'll copy over the MBR, etc.
Don't buy Western Digital - I just had the fourth drive of theirs fail for
me in 6-7 years. Very bad. Buy Seagate, or even Maxtor.
"LenBum" wrote:
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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.
>
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