Hi all
When the free WIN7->WIN10 upgrade neared end I gave in and did the upgrade - after all, you could always downgrade again. Well, as many others, I found that WIN10 had some issues with both some games and some of my hardware, so I decided to basically downgrade. But since I wanted to keep my WIN10 installation alive, I copied it to VHD and used EasyBCD to set up dual boot, then restored my old WIN7. That way, I could still boot into WIN10, have it upgraded and see if the time for a cut over had come. Only problem was, that WIN10 boot was sooo slow, because it wasn't on a SSD.
Today I got a 500GB SSD, migrated my WIN7 to that and then copied the WIN10 VHD to the new SSD as well. Unfortunately, I now get the WInload invalid signature error other people has written about. This occurs both on the new VHD, but strangely also on the old one - and that HAS been working.
A post from Terry60 have lead me to believe that the BOOTMGR file is the culprit and sure enough: Both on my C: drive and the System Reserved partition on the same disk, it has a file date of 22-11-2010, whereas any BOOTMGR file in the VHD is much younger. But on those BOOTMGR files that has an extension, you can the their certificate - end that expired on nov 18, 2016. Does this have anything to do with my problem?
Now, the logical thing to do would be to replace BOOTMGR on C: and System Reserved with one from the WIN10 VHD...but with one, and what would be the smartest way to do it
Sorry for the length of the post, BRGDS
Sven Sorensen, Denmark
When the free WIN7->WIN10 upgrade neared end I gave in and did the upgrade - after all, you could always downgrade again. Well, as many others, I found that WIN10 had some issues with both some games and some of my hardware, so I decided to basically downgrade. But since I wanted to keep my WIN10 installation alive, I copied it to VHD and used EasyBCD to set up dual boot, then restored my old WIN7. That way, I could still boot into WIN10, have it upgraded and see if the time for a cut over had come. Only problem was, that WIN10 boot was sooo slow, because it wasn't on a SSD.
Today I got a 500GB SSD, migrated my WIN7 to that and then copied the WIN10 VHD to the new SSD as well. Unfortunately, I now get the WInload invalid signature error other people has written about. This occurs both on the new VHD, but strangely also on the old one - and that HAS been working.
A post from Terry60 have lead me to believe that the BOOTMGR file is the culprit and sure enough: Both on my C: drive and the System Reserved partition on the same disk, it has a file date of 22-11-2010, whereas any BOOTMGR file in the VHD is much younger. But on those BOOTMGR files that has an extension, you can the their certificate - end that expired on nov 18, 2016. Does this have anything to do with my problem?
Now, the logical thing to do would be to replace BOOTMGR on C: and System Reserved with one from the WIN10 VHD...but with one, and what would be the smartest way to do it
Sorry for the length of the post, BRGDS
Sven Sorensen, Denmark