Partition Magic 8

[Migration User]

One of my client's machines needed a new hard drive, so I used Partition Magic 8 to copy the information over.  The process worked fine until I got this massage:

PartitionMagic (xmnt2002.exe)
Paritionmagic is unable to read the batch file. Verify that the System32 directory is not compressed or corrupt.
Press Any Key to Continue

One suggestion I read was to assign a different drive letter, but how can I do that if I can't boot the system?!! 

I have tried rewriting the boot sector but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

[Migration User]

www.neowin.net/forum/index.php

obviously i am a bit biased being in the ghost forum but ghost works much better at doing stuff like that.  anyway heres a link to a guy that hard this problem in 2005.  his problem was the file was getting deleted on shut down